HRM QUESTION POOL FOR III TEST (2009) FROM MODULE V

Short Questions (Half to one page)

1. What is Grievance?
2. Differentiate Complaints and Grievance
3. What is Exit Interview?
4. What is Gripe Box?
5. What is Open Door Policy?
6. What are legalistic and human relations approaches in grievance handling?
7. What are responsibilities of line managers and HR managers in grievance
handling?
8. Define “Discipline”
9. What are positive and negative disciplines?
10. Give examples for minor and major misconducts
11. What is stress?
12. Explain the various types of stress
13. What is HRIS?
14. Explain the subsystems of HRIS?
15. What is ‘reverse discrimination’?
16. What is corporate affirmative actions?
17. What are ‘Green Jobs’?
18. What is ‘white-collar unions’?
19. What are equality and equity in rewarding people?
20. What is participative Management?
21. How does a good human relations lead to a good industrial relations?
22. Define “Industrial Relations(IR)”
23. What are positive IR and negative IR?
24. Write a short note on employers’ associations.
25.

Medium Question( Two to three pages)

26. Discuss the various causes for Grievances

27. Discuss the various features of a good grievance handling procedure
28. Discuss the various approaches to discipline
29. Explain the salient features of McGregor’s Hot-stove rule on discipline
30. What are the myths and realities about SHIWP?
31. What are the various sources of stress?
32. Link work stress and work-life balance
33. Explain the dynamics of the stress
34. Explain the procedure of introduction of HRIS
35. What are the recent trends in IR?
36. What are regulative pattern, conflictive pattern, and preventive pattern of
managing IR?
 Essay Questions(Four to six pages)

37. Explain the model grievance procedure. Do you think that advent of IT, RTI Act,
etc. have changed the nature and trends of complaints and grievance in the
workplaces?
38. Explain the process of domestic enquiry. Do you think punishment alone will
deter a person from indiscipline?
39. Discuss the various approaches(Human relations, systems, Gandhian, Marxist,
etc) to IR
40. “Stress is a good servant, but a bad master” – Substantiate this statement
41. Discuss the history of trade unions in India
42. Give a critical analysis of the future trends in HRM from global perspective
43. Do a SWOT analysis of trade unions in India

N.B: (a) Apart from the above questions, please come prepared on OTQs from the V
Module. There will be 10 OTQs also for the test.
(b) For essay questions, give an introduction, sub-headings, and
conclusion. Underline important points.
(c) Use quality ruled papers
(d) Bring your own stationeries and articles
(e) There will be two or three different sets of questions