IBPS SO 2018 Professional Knowledge Quiz for HR |

Test your Professional Knowledge of HR with this questionnaire to prepare for IBPS HR Officer Examination. To score in IBPS SO (HR) Professional Knowledge Test candidate must have adequate knowledge of Industrial Relations, Job Evaluation, Human Resource Planning, Labour Laws, Training and Development and more. This quiz covers questions related to the Minimum Wages Act 1948 to help you prepare for the exam.

Q1. HRIS stands for:

Human resource information system

Human regulation interface system

Human resource interface service

Human rights information system

Human resource intelligence service

Solution:

An HRIS, which is also known as a human resource information system or human resource management system (HRMS), is basically an intersection of human resources and information technology through HR software. This allows HR activities and processes to occur electronically.

Q2. Which of the following acts is known as the first step towards the evolution of wage policy in India?

Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Industrial Dispute Act, 1947

Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

Workmen compensation Act, 1923

Solution:

The contributions towards evolution of the policy aimed at protecting wages. The first direct step in this regard was taken in 1936, when the payment of wages act was passed.

Q3. Which section of the Factories Act deals with appointment of Welfare Officers?

Section 45

Section 49

Section 51

Section 55

Section 52

Solution:

Section 49 of the Factories Act made it compulsory for every factory wherein five hundred or more workers are ordinarily employed to employ in each factory such number of welfare officers as the state government might prescribe.

Q4. Which of the following are grievances resulting from management policies except–

Overtime

Lack of role clarity

Hostility towards a labour union

Bad physical condition of workplace

Autocratic leadership style of supervisors

Solution:

Bad physical conditions of workplace are the part of the grievances resulting from working conditions.

Q5. Which of the following is not a feature of collective bargaining?

Collective process

Flexible and dynamic process

One-time negotiation process

Participative process

Give and take process

Solution:

Collective bargaining is a continuous process which establishes regular and stable relationship between the parties involved

Q6. Trade unions are ______________institutions

Political

Non-Governmental

Economical

Technological

Behavioural

Solution:

Trade unions are political institutions that are formed to safeguard the social and economic interest of worker.

Q7. Future positions one strives to reach as part of a career is referred as —

Career path

Career progression

Career cycle

Career goal

Career planning

Solution:

Career goals are positions that employee wants to acquire in future.

Q8. Following are limitations of job evaluation except —

Job evaluation lacks scientific precision

Job evaluation tends to be inflexible

Job evaluation is seen suspiciously by trade union

Job evaluation determine wage rate based on subjective evaluation

Job evaluation presumes that job of equal worth will be equally attractive to the employees

Solution:

Job evaluation determine wage rate of jobs based on objective evaluation not subjective evaluation.

Q9. Which or the following is not a function of Indian labour conference (ILC).

to promote uniformity in labour legislation

to suggest ways and means to prevent disputes

to lay down procedure for the settlement of industrial disputes

to discuss matters of all-India importance as between employer and employee

to allow workers to be consulted and have their say in the management of unit

Solution:

When workers are consulted and have their say in the management of unit, it is a part of worker’s participation in management.

Q10. In case the state government wants to extend the applicability of Payment of Wages Act to any other establishment or class of employees, then it must give a prior notice of _________ .

45 days

1 month

3 months

15 days

60 days

Solution:

The Provincial Government may after giving three months' notice of its intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of the Act or any of them to the payment of wages to any class of persons employed in any industrial establishment or any class or group of industrial establishments.

Q11. The section 20 of the factories Act discuss about___

Lighting

Drinking Water

Latrines and Urinals

Spittoons

Overcrowding

Solution:

According to section 20 of factories act 1948 every factory must have a provision for spittoons within the factory premises which shall be maintained in a clean and hygienic condition.

Q12. Who advanced the concept of ‘Three tier institutional structure’ of Industrial Relations?

John T. Dunlop

Allan Flanders

D.T. Hall

Roy Adam

Kochan, Katz & Mckersie

Solution:

Kochan, Katz and Mckersie developed a three-tier institutional structure. A three-tier organizational structure separates the top-level decision makers from the bottom-level staff by a middle layer of management oversight generally made up of regional, divisional or subsidiary managers.

Q13. Which one of the following methods is regarded as the most ideal for settlement of Industrial Dispute?

Adjudication

Mediation / Conciliation

Collective Bargaining

Voluntary Arbitration

Consultative machinery

Solution:

Voluntary Arbitration refers to the mode of settling labor-management disputes by which the parties select a competent, trained and impartial person who shall decide on the merits of the case and whose decision is final, executory and binding.

Q14. Which of the following statement are correct?

Performance appraisal is not used in the public sector

It does not include performance planning

Performance appraisal has become more widespread

Performance appraisal is diminishing in importance

None of these

Solution:

A performance appraisal (PA), also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation, (career) development discussion, or employee appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an employee is documented and evaluated.

Q15. When workers unite and take 2 to 3 times as long to do the job is a form of strike known as:

picketing

go-slow

check off

boycott

protest

Solution:

A "Go Slow" strike is where workers unite and take 2 and 3 times as long to do the job. It causes profits to fall and eventually loses to be incurred.