1)Which of the following questions might be answered during the human resource planning process? Check all that apply.

a. Given the expected growth of the health care industry, will we need more salespeople with health care backgrounds?

b. Would realistic job previews increase the success rate of our hiring process?

c. Can we get better results if we use a payroll company than by having an in-house payroll department?

d. If we introduced a telecommuting option, would employees use it?

2. A company is planning to have a booth at a job fair to recruit for landscapers. In order to help potential applicants decide whether they are a good fit for the job, the company should:

a. Have a current employee who is a landscaper help staff the booth and tell interested people both the plusses and minuses of the job

b. Encourage everyone who stops by the booth to fill out a job application

c. Not share the job description and specifications with people who come to the booth because that is confidential company information

Management at Work:

You finally landed the job you've been training for your entire career, and now you're the VP of HR for Goliath Industries. Wanting to know more about the real interviewing practices at Goliath (as opposed to the interviewing policies in the handbook), you've asked a senior sales manager if you can sit in on an interview. What you heard shocked you. Although there were many good questions being asked, some questions were actually illegal! Clearly, something will have to be done about this. Indicate whether each of the following questions is legal or illegal.

Interview Question 3. How many times a month were you late for work at your last job?

A. Legal

B. Illegal

Interview Question 4. What groups or organizations do you belong to outside of work?

A. Legal

B. Illegal

5. That's an interesting name. Where's your family from?

A. Legal

B. Illegal

6. How many years of experience as a (job title) do you have?

A. Legal

B. Illegal

1). Human resources planning is a process of determining the gap between current manpower and the required manpower in the light of the future plans of the organization and chalking out activities to fill that gap, if any. Based on the definition, question (a) needs to be answered necessarily during the human resource planning stage because the question is regarding the number of sales people need. It also states that they're expecting growth in the healthcare industry. All other questions can be considered at later stages, during recruitment and selection.

2). Option (a) seems to be right in comparison to options (b) and (c). Option (b), encouraging everyone who stops by to fill out the job application, doesn't make any sense because it's a waste of time for both the candidate and the company. Option (c) also seems absurd since withholding the details of job description and specification from the candidate is unethical for a company.

3). A job interview is a process of communication in which the employers try to gain as many details as possible from the candidate that concerns the job to which they're applying. At the same time, the employee can also get his or her doubts cleared. All questions relating to what is expected of the employee are essential to give during interview process. There are types of interviews which can be quite probing, such as stress interviews where candidates are put under stress to understand their presence of mind when put under pressure. An interview is planned based on the job the candidate is expected to hold. The questions here seem to be genuine and there's nothing illegal about them.

4). This question can be taken in two ways. Say, for example, the employer is asking about his personal groups, club membership, interest groups etc; there's nothing unusual about asking about that. Peripherally, there's nothing illegal in this question, unless the employee's answers are used to discriminate against them getting the job.

5). There's nothing illegal about asking where the candidate is from or anything about their family. It might be awkward for some of them, but it isn't illegal, as long as the answer doesn't factor into the hiring of the candidate.

6). Knowing about or getting acquainted with an employee's experience is one of the most common practices of any job interview, so no, there is nothing illegal about this.