question bank of Personnel Planning and Recruiting

MANARAT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

MBA Program

		Personnel Planning and Recruiting
1.	a)	What do you mean by Recruitment? How recruitment differ from selection?
	b)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company what process you have to follow regarding recruitment and selection?
	c)	Recruitment and selection is a process of hiring and firing. Justify your answer.
	d)	As a Human Resource Manager If you plan for employment requirements, you will usually need to forecast three things, what are those things?
	e)	Dating Contracts  ( $ thousands) 1.5 2.0 3.0 3.8 4.2 Customer Service  Representatives 9 14 21 25 27 Requirements: 1. Calculate the Customer Service Representatives equation. 2. For $ 10000 dating contracts, how many Customer Service Representatives are required? 3. For $15000 dating contracts, how many Customer Service Representatives are required?
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	g)	What do you mean by ratio analysis?  An organization current sales volume is tk. 50000, for this sales volume the organization needs 5 sales persons. If the organizations plan is to increase the sales tk. 3 millions, how many Human Resource the organization have to recruit.
	h)	Sales Level ( $ Millions) 2.0 3.5 4.5 6.0 7.0 Number of Marketing personnel 20 32 42 55 66 Requirements:                                I.            Calculate the Number of Marketing personnel equation.                             II.            For $11 million of sales, how many Marketing personnel are required?                          III.            For $15 million of sales, how many Marketing personnel are required?
	i)	What do you mean by ratio analysis?  An organization current sales volume is tk. 40000, for this sales volume the organization uses 5 sales persons. If the organizations plan is to increase the sales tk. 4 millions, how many Human Resources the organization should hire.
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	k)	What do you mean Personnel replacement charts? Draw a imagine Personnel replacement charts for your organization.
	l)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company discuss briefly Internal factors affecting recruitment.
	m)	What do you mean by Recruiting yield pyramid? If 1200 applicants apply for the job, the organization wants to recruit few candidates for this reason HR Manager sought the applicants by applying Recruiting yield pyramid .How many candidates are offered for the job.
	n)	“Rehiring former employees is effective for the performance of the organization” justify your answer.
	o)	Internal Sources of Candidates is effective for the performance of the organization” justify your answer.
		Employee Testing and Selection
2.	a)	What do you mean by Test validity? Discuss briefly the Types of Validity.
	b)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company how to Validate a Test.
	c)	As a Human Resource Manager what are the Guidelines you have to follow regarding test program.
	d)	Why Careful Selection is Important for the performance of the organization.
	e)	As a Human Resource Manager how to Avoid Negligent Hiring Claims?
	f)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company what types of Tests you can apply regarding Selecting the candidate. Discuss any three test
	g)	What are the Sources of information for background checks?
	h)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Luminous Group How to Make Background Checks More Useful?
	i)	Reasons for preemployment medical examinations
		Training and Developing Employees
3.	a)	What do you mean by Employee orientation? Point out the Orientation content.
	b)	What do you mean by Training? Distinguish Between Training and Development.
	c)	What do you mean by Training?  Discuss briefly the Training and Development Process of a Multinational company.
	d)	What do you mean by On-the-job training (OJT)? As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company what are the steps you have to follow regarding On-the-job training (OJT)?
	e)	As a student of Manarat International University mention ten training and development institutions name of Bangladesh.
	f)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company what types of training and development methods you can follow for your organization. Discuss any three methods.
	g)	Job rotation is an effective training method for performance of employees of an organization. Justify your answer.
	h)	Brothers’ Furniture is a family business that has been selling to retail customers in the Dhaka for many years. The owner would like to review the relationship between sales and the amount spent on training and development. Below is information on sales and T&D expenses for the last four months. Month T&D expenses ($ million) Sales Revenue     ($ million) July 3 8 August 2 5 September 3 8 October 4 10 Determine the relationship between T&D expenses and sales Revenue. Determine what portions of sales is determined by only T&D.
		Performance Management and Appraisal
4.	a)	What do you mean by Performance appraisal?  As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company Why you appraise performance of the employees?
	b)	Who Should Do the Appraising?
	c)	As a Human Resource Manager of “Caravan group’ what Steps you have to follow  in Appraising Performance of your employees
	d)	What do you mean by Graphic rating scale?  Discuss briefly Graphic rating scale with a practical example?
	e)	What do you mean by Paired comparison method? Discuss briefly Paired comparison method with a practical example?
	f)	What do you mean by Forced distribution method? Discuss briefly Forced distribution method with a practical example?
	g)	As a Human Resource Manager of a Multinational company what are the Potential Rating Scale Appraisal problems you have to face? And how would you Avoid those Appraisal Problems.
	h)	Brothers’ Furniture is a family business that has been selling to retail customers in the Dhaka for many years. The owner would like to review the relationship between sales and the amount spent on Performance appraisal. Below is information on sales and Performance appraisal expenses for the last four months. Month Performance appraisal  expenses ($ million) Sales Revenue     ($ million) August 2 7 September 1 3 October 3 8 December 4 10 Determine the relationship between Performance appraisal expenses and sales Revenue. Determine what portions of sales is determined by only Performance appraisal.
	i)	Manarat International University 20 Batch total HRM students are 200. As an evaluator how can you evaluate their performance by Forced distribution method?
	j)	What do you mean by Management by Objective?  Discuss briefly MBO method with a practical example?
		Math Problem
5.	a)	Problem 05:  An organization wants to quit 5 employees.  For this the organization arranged an interview for the exiting employees. Organization invites 3 interviewers for 2 hours to take transparent interview to measure their qualification. Some costs are involved to arrange this separation process: ·         Wages of the interviewers Tk. 2500.00 per hour. ·         Wages of the exiting per employee is 500 per hour.  ·         Severance package per employee is 50000.00 ·         Administrative functions related to the Exiting per employee 3000.00 per hour. ·         Unemployment Compensation 60000.00 per employee. What is the cost of separation processing?
	b)	Problem 06:  An organization wants to quit 5 employees.  For this the organization arranged an interview for the exiting employees. Organization invites 3 interviewers for 2 hours to take transparent interview to measure their qualification. The organization also invites 2 trainers for 2 hours for 3 temp training and manages 2 workers for three hours overtime. Some costs are involved to arrange this process: ·         Wages of the interviewers Tk. 2500.00 per hour. ·         Wages of the exiting per employee is tk. 500 per hour.  ·         Severance package per employee is tk. 50000.00 ·         Administrative functions related to the Exiting per employee tk. 3000.00 per hour. ·         Unemployment Compensation 60000.00 per employee. ·         Wages of per trainer tk. 2000.00 per hour. ·         Wages of per temp 500.00 per hour. ·         Wages of overtime 400.00 per hour Requirements: 1.      What is the cost of separation processing? 2.      What is the cost of covering vacancy gap?
	c)	Problem 07:  An organization quit 5 employees and decided to replace it by new hiring. 50 applicant apply for the job.  For this the organization arranged different types of test and interview for hiring new employees. Organization invites 2 tester and 3 interviewers for 2 hours. Some costs are involved to arrange this process: ·         Cost of developing advertisement Tk. 2500.00. ·         Cost of newspaper advertisement tk. 1, 50,000.  ·         Cost of screening application  tk. 5000.00 ·         Wages of per interviewer tk. 2000.00. ·         Wages of per participants for hiring decision meeting 3000.00. ( present 5 participants) ·         Cost of reference check tk. 2000.00. ·         Cost of background check per applicant 100.00. ·         Cost of per tester tk. 2000.00. ·         Cost of test for per applicant 500.00  Requirements: ·         What is the cost of replacement hiring?
	d)	Problem 08: Manarat International University hires 7 faculties for different department and decided to train new faculties.  For this the organization arrange an orientation and on the job training program also invites 2 trainers for orientation and 3 trainers for on the job tainting for 2 hours. Some costs are involved to arrange this program: ·         Administrative cost related to the new employees for training 5000.00 ·         Wages of per trainer for orientation tk. 2000.00. ·         Wages of per trainee for orientation tk. 500.00. ·         Wages of per trainer for on the job training tk. 2000.00. ·         Wages of per trainee for on the job training tk. 1000.00. ·         Cost of materials development for training tk. 8000.00