Professional Knowledge Questions for IBPS SO HR Mains 2017

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

Q.1. Read the following statements on HRD need analysis. Identify the one which is not true:
(a) HRD needs can be identified at strategic, organisational, operational, task and person levels.
(b) HRD needs can be diagnostic, analytic, compliance oriented and proactive.
(c) HRD needs analysis is a very cost-effective process.
(d) Task related KSA analysis and training need analysis are integral part of HRD need analysis.
(e) It is a process by which an organization’s HRD needs are identified and articulated.

Q.2. Match the following theories of career planning with their propagators:
Theories of career planning:
(A) Career anchor model
(B) Career path model
(C) Career choice model
(D) Career stages model
Propagators:
i. John Holland
ii. D.T. Hall
iii. Edgar Schien
iv. Mondy, Noe and Premeanx
Codes
      A B C D
(a) ii iii i iv
(b) iii ii i iv
(c) iii iv i ii
(d) ii iv iii i
(e) iv iii ii i

Q.3. Who advanced the concept of ‘Three tier institutional structure’ of Industrial Relations ?
(a) John T. Dunlop
(b) Allan Flanders
(c) D.T. Hall
(d) Roy Adam
(e) Kochan, Katz & Mckersie

Q.4. Which approach to job design has key element called the task idea to job specialization?
(a) Engineering Approach
(b) Human Relations
(c) Socio technical Approach
(d) Job characteristics Approach
(e) Industrial relations

Q.5. In which country the trade union movement began with industrial unions ?
(a) Great Britain
(b) U.S.A.
(c) India
(d) Canada
(e) Africa

Q.6. If there are ____ numbers of employees, then the employer has to provide a canteen.
(a) 250
(b) 510
(c) 320
(d) 100
(e) 150

Q.7. Leave with wages is allowed for employees if they work for _______ days in a month.
(a) 15
(b) 25
(c) 20
(d) 28
(e) 12

Q.8. Welfare Officers are to be appointed if Organisation is engaging ______ or more employees.
(a) 500
(b) 250
(c) 600
(d) 750
(e) 300

Q.9. Housing is a statutory welfare under which of the following Acts ?
(a) Factories’ Act
(b) Mines Act
(c) Shops and Commercial Establishment Act
(d) Plantation Labour Act
(e) Pension Act

Q.10. The minimum subscription rate for members of trade unions of rural workers shall not be less than Rs.
(a) 12 per annum
(b) 3 per annum
(c) 1 per annum
(d) 5 per annum
(e) No such provision