Personnel Management Question Paper
Personnel Management
Course:Diploma In Management (Management)
Institution: Machakos University question papers
Exam Year:2009
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer any FOUR of the SIX questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
This paper consists of 3 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
1.(a) Explain the key areas of personnel policy that the personnel department should consider in initiating and revising such organizational policies.(10 marks)
(b) For an organization to operate effectively, it is necessary that it plans for its human resource requirements.
Explain the reasons for the need for such human resource planning.(15 marks)
2.(a) Posho Ltd, a newly established organization, is in the process of recruiting staff to work in the organization.
Explain the external sources from which the organization could recruit the staff.(15 marks)
(b) Organizations carry out staff appraisals to achieve certain objectives.
Explain the objectives of such staff appraisal.(10 marks)
3.(a) Organizations tend to find it necessary to introduce job grading as they expand.
Explain the reasons for such a tendency.(10 marks)
(b) Wanga Ltd has been experiencing an increased level of disputes among its employees.
Explain the measures that the management may take to ensure effective resolution of such disputes among workers(15 marks)
4.(a) Unfair employee promotion is one source of employees 'job dissatisfaction.
Explain the ways in which an organization can avoid such unfair employee promotion.(10 marks)
(b) Explain the possible causes of industrial unrest in an organization.(15 marks)
5.(a) Organizations usually find it necessary to maintain employees' personal files for purposes of securing employees' records.
Outline the records that are likely to be stored in such files.(10 marks)
(b) Mwanzia, the personnel manager of Lulu Ltd, intends to conduct personnel research as a way of evaluating the effectiveness of human resources policies and practices in the organization.
Outline the areas that Mwanzia should focus on in his personnel research.(15 marks)
6.(a) Planning as one of the personnel functions suffers certain limitations.
Highlight such limitations.(10 marks)
(b) Kwao Ltd, a newly established organization, intends to undertake training of its employees in order to enhance their efficiency.
Explain the types of internal training programmes that the organization may conduct for the employees.(15 marks)
APPLIED ECONOMICS
July 2007
Time: 3 hours
THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT PART 1
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer any FIVE of the SEVEN questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
This paper consists of 3 printed
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
1.(a) Country X has adopted a policy of ensuring that industries are dispersed throughout all the regions in the country.
Outline the benefits that the country may derive from adopting this policy.(10 marks)
(b) Explain the ways in which a country can attract Direct Foreign Investments as a way of financing its economic development.(10 marks)
2.(a) The Government of Kenya recently adopted the decentralized development strategy which is being implemented through the Constituency Development Fund initiative.
Explain the benefits to the country of adopting this development strategy.(10 marks)
(b) One of the basis of determining what a country should produce fro international trade is the principle of comparative advantage.
Outline the limitations of this principle as the basis of making such a decision.(10 marks)
3.(a) Explain the considerations that are necessary for ensuring that proposals and projections of a systematic development plan are internally consistent.(8 marks)
(b) Kenya is reputed as one of the countries with the highest income distribution inequalities in the world.
Highlight the reasons that may account for this situation.(12 marks)
4.(a) One of the roles of the Central Bank of Kenya is the regulation of commercial banks in the country.
Describe the ways in which the Bank exercises this role.(10 marks)
(b) There are certain factors that tend to limit the pace of development in most of the Less Developed Countries.
Explain these factors.(10 marks)
5.(a) A group of young graduate entrepreneurs intend to venture into business in a certain field.
Outline the areas in which they may need to conduct market research before commencing the business.(10 marks)
6.(a) With the aid of a diagram, explain the loss minimization price and output decision for a monopoly firm.(10 marks)
(b) Outline the measures that a manufacturing firm can take to reduce its production costs.(10 marks)
7.(a) Ndapu Ltd, manufacturers of a certain luxury good, would like to market the item in a certain country.
Describe the procedure the firm would follow to estimate potential demand for its product in the country through income analysis.(10 marks)
(b) Highlight the possible objectives for which a business enterprise may be established.(10 marks)
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