SECTION B TRUE OR FALSE [10 marks]

There are ten questions in this section. Each question carries one mark.

Answer all questions in this Section.

1. Activities of human resources management result in orientation of new employees into the organisation and assist them to perform their tasks, compensating them for the work done and finding solutions to the problems that may occur.

2. Human resources management is seen as a separate function disconnected from the actual work of the organisation, providing only an administrative, rule-making and regulatory service to the organisation.
3. One of the objectives of human resources management is to maintain performance standards and increase productivity through effective job design; providing adequate orientation, training and development; providing performance-related feedback; and ensuring effective two-way communication.
4. In the industrial period, the driving force of management were the procedures that had to be followed, whereas todays human resources management is driven by business needs and growth of the organisation, as well as the need and growth of the individual.
5. It is important to know the current workforce structure, job design and reward systems that exist in an organization, hence be able to know whether productivity and performance levels increase or decrease.
6. According to (Dessler, 2010) job analysis can be defined as The procedure for determining the duties and skill requirements of a job and the kind of person who should be hired for the job by collecting the following types of information: work activities; human behaviors; machines, tools, equipment, and work aids; performance standards; job context; and human requirements.
7. A Job description is a statement of minimum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job properly. It refers to a summary of the personal characteristics required for performing the job.
8. As an entrepreneur, you will need to set up your business and employ additional people to assist you. Internal recruiting is where employees from within the organisation are given the opportunity to compete for the position with people from outside the organisation. This opens opportunities for promotion or job changes for the organisations current employees.
9. Performance management is a restricted and reactive function of assessing past performance undertaken once or twice a year. It is a distinct staff activity with no direct involvement with the employees daily work.
10. Variable pay is a reward paid by an employer to an employee that is contingent on discretion, performance or results achieved. There are different types of variable pay plans, such as bonus schemes, sales incentives (commission), overtime pay, performance bonuses and more.