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  • A. job sharing
  • B. flexible sharing
  • C. benefit sharing
  • D. severance sharing

Explanation: Job sharing divides one full-time position between two or more employees, with the workers sharing its hours and responsibilities.

Correct answer: job sharing
  • A. compatibility
  • B. portability
  • C. durability
  • D. profitability

Explanation: Pension portability allows employees to preserve or transfer accumulated retirement benefits when they leave an organization.

Correct answer: portability
  • A. preferred health organization
  • B. preferred provider organizations
  • C. health maintenance organization
  • D. preferred maintenance organizations

Explanation: A health maintenance organization, or HMO, provides members with organized medical care through doctors and specialists for a fixed or…

Correct answer: health maintenance organization
  • A. contributory flexibility
  • B. work hour flexibility
  • C. work week flexibility
  • D. workplace flexibility

Explanation: Workplace flexibility uses technology and alternative work arrangements to let employees perform their jobs more flexibly, including from…

Correct answer: workplace flexibility
  • A. supplemental pay benefits
  • B. optional pay benefits
  • C. compensation law benefits
  • D. unemployment pay benefits

Explanation: Supplemental pay benefits cover payments made in addition to direct wages, including pay for time not worked, unemployment benefits, and…

Correct answer: supplemental pay benefits
  • A. compensation law benefits
  • B. supplemental pay benefits
  • C. optional pay benefits
  • D. unemployment pay benefits

Explanation: Pay for time not worked, such as vacation, holidays, and sick leave, is classified as a supplemental pay benefit because it compensates…

Correct answer: supplemental pay benefits
  • A. deferred work week
  • B. flexible work week
  • C. compressed work week
  • D. stable work week

Explanation: A compressed work week reduces the number of working days by extending the hours worked on each day.

Correct answer: compressed work week
  • A. severance pay
  • B. lifelong learning
  • C. vacations and holidays
  • D. optional pay benefitsPakMcqs App Subscription

Explanation: Severance pay is a payment made to employees whose employment ends because of termination or layoff.

Correct answer: severance pay
  • A. stock ownership
  • B. benefits
  • C. loyalty scholarships
  • D. all of above

Explanation: Benefits are employer-provided rewards or payments that supplement employees' regular wages and support their continued employment.

Correct answer: benefits
  • A. optional pay benefits
  • B. unemployment pay benefits
  • C. supplemental pay benefits
  • D. compensation law benefits

Explanation: Supplemental pay benefits cover paid absences and related payments, including vacations, jury duty, funeral leave and sabbatical leave.

Correct answer: supplemental pay benefits
  • A. defined benefit pension plan
  • B. defined noncontributory pension plan
  • C. defined contribution pension plan
  • D. deferred contribution pension plan

Explanation: In a defined contribution plan, the employer's contribution is fixed, while the retirement benefit ultimately depends on contributions and…

Correct answer: defined contribution pension plan
  • A. employee stock ownership plan
  • B. severance pay plan
  • C. early retirement window plan
  • D. cash balance plan

Explanation: A cash balance plan credits an employee's account with a stated percentage of compensation plus interest, creating a declared account…

Correct answer: cash balance plan
  • A. deferred profit sharing plan
  • B. savings and thrift plan
  • C. cash balance plans
  • D. early retirement window

Explanation: A deferred profit-sharing plan places a specified share of company profits into employees' accounts, with payment generally deferred until…

Correct answer: deferred profit sharing plan
  • A. cash balance plans
  • B. early retirement window
  • C. savings and thrift plan
  • D. deferred profit sharing plan

Explanation: A savings and thrift plan requires employees to contribute a portion of their earnings to a retirement fund, often with an employer match.

Correct answer: savings and thrift plan
  • A. ensuring that the 'human resources possess, adequate capital, tool equipment and material to perform the job successful
  • B. Ensuring financial & Marketing Stability
  • C. improving an Organisation's creditworthiness among financial institutions
  • D. helping the Organisation deal with its employees in different stages of employment

Explanation: HRM helps an organization manage employees throughout recruitment, employment, development and separation.

Correct answer: helping the Organisation deal with its employees in different stages of employment
  • A. Functional
  • B. Staff
  • C. Line
  • D. Implied

Explanation: Functional authority allows a specialist such as an HR manager to direct activities within a particular area, such as employee training.

Correct answer: Functional
  • A. consider how the various new stakeholders and clients will use the system
  • B. draw-up a flow chart of the current assessment process
  • C. train the employees that will be responsible for the administration of the process
  • D. draft the desired flow process that will result from the E-selection processStrategic Planning

Explanation: An e-selection system should first be based on an understanding of the existing assessment process, so drawing its current flow chart…

Correct answer: draw-up a flow chart of the current assessment process
  • A. Litigation Process
  • B. Legal compliance
  • C. Fair employment
  • D. Affirmative action

Explanation: Fair employment means making employment decisions without unlawful discrimination based on protected characteristics.

Correct answer: Fair employment
  • A. Production
  • B. Marketing
  • C. Inventory management
  • D. Training & DevelopmentHuman Resources

Explanation: Training and development is a core HRM function because it builds employees’ skills and prepares them for present and future work.

Correct answer: Training & DevelopmentHuman Resources
  • A. Employee number chart
  • B. Clear and precise job descriptions
  • C. Well-defined mobility (promotion and transfer) paths
  • D. Formal Organisation charts

Explanation: Traditional job design commonly includes organization charts, detailed job descriptions, and defined promotion or transfer paths.

Correct answer: Employee number chart