YENEPOYA (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY)

IIND SEMESTER BBA (LPM) FIRST INTERNAL EXAMINATION

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
COURSE CODE: NBLP205F
YOUR ANSWER SHALL BE SPECIFIC TO THE QUESTION ASKED.

Time: 1.30 Hours Max. Marks: 50

SECTION A
Choose the correct answer from the following: (15x1=15 Marks)

1. In what way training and development offers a competitive advantage to an organization?

 a. It reduces performance deficiencies  b. It ensures employee compliance
 c. It increases the supervisor’s role d. None of the above

2. Which one of the following is a unique characteristics of a learning organization?

 a. The members learn about each other
 b. It can help people creating, acquiring and use it for improvement
 c. It focuses on selecting new employees who love learning and are highly skilled
 d. Employees are rewarded for submitting creative suggestions and participating in their
implementation

3. A set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its

members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job
demands is known as:
 a. Human resource management  b. Change management
 c. Human resource development  d. Career Planning

4.  Which of the following is an advantage of on-the-job training?

 a. provides immediate transfer of training
 b. allows employees to learn at their pace without any pressure to produce results
 c. provides for more excellent group interaction
 d. reduces the costs of supervision

5. Which of the following is the core of all HRD efforts?

 a. Better coordination among employees  b. Internal control of activities
 c. Workplace Learning  d. Employee satisfaction

6. Which of the following is an important reason for organizing a training program?

 a. it contributes to the upgrade knowledge an skill of employees for improved performance
 b. it has been highly advertised for better brand management
 c. competitors are using the training to created advantage
 d. concern about regulatory pressure to train employees.

7. What is the basic objective of human resource development activities in an organization?

 a. Improve employee knowledge  b. improved employee behavior and skills
 c. Improve employee productivity d. All of these

8. Which of the following is the first HRD intervention experienced by an employee when he
joins an organization?
 a. Mentoring  b. Orientation
 c. On-the-job training  d. Coaching

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9. Learning undertaken for the development of skills either on the job or off the job to enable
effective performance in given role is called
 a. Coaching b. Education
 c. Training d. Mentoring

10. Which of the following is not a part of HRD activities?

 a. training   b. branding
 c. coaching d mentoring

11. Which of the following HRD process helps to determine the gap between capabilities of
the current employee and what they are required to do?
 a. HRD Design  b. HRD Implementation
 c. HRD Evaluation d. HRD Needs Assessment

12. HRD programs of the organizations must respond

 a. to job changes and integrate the long-term plans and strategies of the organization to
ensure the efficient and effective use of resources.
 b. help organization to achieve its goals and objectives
 c. help organization to build its reputation and image of a good organization
 d. All of the above

13. Which of the following is concerned with the development of knowledge, skill, and
attitude to improve performance and behavior? 
a. Human Resource Management  b. Human Resource Development 
c. Sustainable Human Resource Management  d. performance management

d. Knowledge Management. 
14. Which of the following is not of a characteristic of human resource development? 
a. Proactive  b. Developing the competence of people 
c. Creative and continuous process  d. Routine and administrative 

15. Which of the following is not a major function of HRD? 

a. coaching  b. Training 
c. Development  d. organizational development 
SECTION B
Answer any TWO of the following (5x4=20 Marks)
16. Distinguish between HRM&HRD.
17. What are the importance and objectives of HRD.
18. Explain the approaches of HRD
19. What is performance appraisal? Explain its objectives.
20. Distinguish between performance appraisal & Potential appraisal

SECTION C
Answer any ONE of the following (1x15=15 Marks)
21.What is training? And Explain the various types training method.
22 Explain the method of Performance appraisal.