HR Administration and HRIS MCQs

HR Administration and HRIS MCQs

Our team has conducted extensive research to compile a set of HR Administration and HRIS MCQs. We encourage you to test your HR Administration and HRIS knowledge by answering these 30 multiple-choice questions provided below.
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1: A written report detailing how an employer actively seeks to hire and promote individuals in protected classes is known as _____ .

A.   Risk avoidance strategy

B.   Affirmative action plan (AAP)

C.   Americans with Disabilities Act

D.   None of these

2: Age Discrimination in Employment Act passed in

A.   1967

B.   1963

C.   1964

D.   1965

3: Americans with Disabilities Act passed

A.   1990

B.   1992

C.   1993

D.   1994

4: The effort to bring functionality that had previously been outsourced back in-house is known as ______ .

A.   Backsourcing

B.   Balanced scorecard

C.   Affirmative action plan

D.   None of these

5: A means of measuring strategic organizational performance that gives managers a chance to look at their company from the perspectives of stakeholders is known as ______.

A.   Backsourcing

B.   Balanced scorecard

C.   Affirmative action plan

D.   None of these

6: The outsourcing of only discrete, or selected, HR functions to third-party providers is known as

A.   .

B.   Backsourcing

C.   Balanced scorecard

D.   Affirmative action plan

E.   Discrete HRO

7: A structural approach to HR administration through HR portals that provides a means for employees to access their personal information and HR services and information is known as______ .

A.   Backsourcing

B.   Balanced scorecard

C.   Affirmative action plan

D.   Employee self-service

8: Employer Information Report is a report required to be filed annually with the EEO that lists employee data categorized by _______ .

A.   Job category

B.   Race/ethnicity

C.   Gender

D.   All of these

9: The condition in which all individuals have an equal chance for employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex is known as _______ .

A.   Equal employment opportunity

B.   Balanced scorecard

C.   Affirmative action plan

D.   Employee self-service

10: FMLA passed with bipartisan support in _____.

A.   January 1997

B.   February 1999

C.   March 1997

D.   January 1993

11: Genetic Information Nondisclosure Act passed in

A.   2008

B.   2001

C.   2003

D.   None of these

12: Moving a company’s human resource function outside the organization to an external company is known as _____ .

A.   Human resources outsourcing

B.   Manager self-service

C.   Multiprocess HRO

D.   None of these

A.   True

B.   False

14: Multiprocess HRO recruitment and selection or defined and _______ retirement plan administration

A.   403(k)

B.   404(k)

C.   406(k)

D.   401(k)

15: Occupational Safety and Health Act passed in

A.   1973

B.   1971

C.   1975

D.   1970

16: A form of offshoring in which the company moves operations overseas but retains ownership of the offshore operations in some form is known as

A.   Offshore ownership

B.   Offshoring

C.   OSHA Form 300

D.   None of these

17: An organization’s use of groups outside of its home country is known as ______ .

A.   Offshore ownership

B.   Offshoring

C.   OSHA Form 300

D.   None of these

A.   Injuries

B.   Illnesses

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

19: A summary report that displays total illnesses and injuries that occurred during the year, which is posted for all employees to view is known as_______

A.   Offshore ownership

B.   Offshoring

C.   OSHA Form 300

D.   None of these

20: OSHA Form 301 provided for each reportable injury and illness.

A.   True

B.   False

21: Performance appraisals a retrospective system noting how an _______ has performed during a previous period

A.   Employee

B.   Only managers

C.   Only Ceo teams

D.   None of these

22: Resource-based view is a theory about organizations that suggests that the value of the firm is based upon its _______ .

A.   Physical

B.   Organizational

C.   Human capital.

D.   All of these

23: Self-service portal provides a means for employees to access their personal information and HR services and information.

A.   True

B.   False

24: A structure for organizing and utilizing distributed computing capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains is known as _____ .

A.   Shared-service center

B.   Strategic choices

C.   Service-oriented architecture

D.   None of these

25: Shared-service center is a technology-enabled centralized group designed to provide excellent service to ______ at reduced costs

A.   Internal customers

B.   External customers

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

26: Shared-service center is a technology-enabled centralized group designed to provide excellent service to internal customers at______.

A.   Reduced costs.

B.   Increase costs.

C.   Maintain costs.

D.   None Of these

27: Shared services is a strategy in which ______ business functions of a firm are concentrated in a semi autonomous organization

A.   No Business

B.   One or more

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

A.   Strategic choices

B.   Sustainable competitive

C.   Total HRO

D.   All of these

29: Sustainable competitive is a way a firm achieves ______ competitive advantage in its market by having a resource

A.   Short-term

B.   Small-term

C.   Medium-term

D.   Long-term

30: Total HRO involves having all or nearly all HR functions handled by one or more external vendors.

A.   True

B.   False

31: Transaction cost theory is the idea that organizations can choose to purchase the goods and services

A.   True

B.   False

32: protects the civilian employment of active and reserve military personnel in the United States who are called to active duty.This act is known as

A.   Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act

B.   Family and Medical Leave Act

C.   Occupational Safety and Health Act

D.   None of these