Deck 15: The Management of Human Resources

Question 1

What is the term for the appointment of an employee to another position at the same level as his/her existing position, or to a higher or lower level position without any change in the employee's personnel classification?

A)staffing
B)deployment
C)employment
D)selection

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following immediately replaced the Canadian Public Agency?

A)The Human Resources Council
B)External Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation
C)Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada
D)The Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Where is the Office of the Chief Human Resource housed?

A)the Prime Minister's Office
B)the Privy Council Office
C)the Department of Finance
D)the Treasury Board Secretariat

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is also known as the Royal Commission on Government Organization?

A)Lambert Commission
B)Glassco Commission
C)Civil Service Commission
D)D'Avignon Committee

Question 5

As of 2014, which occupational category is the largest in terms of full-time employees?

A)executive group
B)administrative and foreign service
C)operational
D)technical

Question 6

Which of the following acts grants the Public Service Commission authority to appoint persons within the public service according to merit?

A)Financial Administration Act
B)Public Service Labour Relations Act
C)Public Service Modernization Act
D)Appropriations Act

Question 7

Which of the following is responsible for deputy ministerial and governor-in-council appointments?

A)Office of the Chief Human Resources officers
B)Public Service Commission
C)Privy Council Office
D)Individual Departments

Question 8

According to a 2001 survey, the morale of public sector employees has risen.

Question 9

Francophone Canadians have a much lower rate of bilingualism than Anglophone Canadians.

Question 10

Which of the following deals with public sector compensation such as pension, insurance, and benefits?

A)Privy Council Office
B)Public Service Commission
C)Office of Chief of Human Resources
D)Public Service Relations Board

Question 11

Which of the following was launched in 1989 to revitalize and revamp the human resources management portion of the public service?

A)D' Avignon Committee
B)PS 2000
C)Special Committee on Personnel Management and Merit Principle
D)Civil Service Commission

Question 12

When was the Civil Service Act passed?

A)during the Patronage Era (Pre-1918)
B)during Patronage to Merit (1918-1945)
C)during Roots of Reform (1946-1966)
D)during Failure of Reform (1979-1989)

Question 13

Even though cuts were made to the public service in the 1990s, there was annual growth in the size of the public service until 2011.

Question 14

What is another name for the 1979 Special Committee on Personnel Management and the Merit Principle?

A)PS 2000
B)Civil Service Act
C)Glassco Commission
D)D'Avignon Committee

Question 15

Which of the following occupational categories would firefighters be categorized under?

A)operational
B)scientific and professional
C)technical
D)administrative

Question 16

What is the term for individuals who are appointed to the public service for an unspecified period of time?

A)indeterminate employees
B)casual employees
C)determinate employees
D)term employees

Question 17

Who has the exclusive authority to make appointments for separate agencies?

A)Public Service Commission
B)Treasury Board
C)Office of the Auditor-General
D)Civil Service Commission

Question 18

The government moved from a traditional and highly centralized model of personnel administration to one that is associated with NPM.

Question 19

Which type of employee cannot work in the public service for longer than 90 days?

A)indeterminate employee
B)term employee
C)determinate employee
D)casual employee

Question 20

What body was set up to oversee the introduction of the Public Service Modernization Act?

A)Deputy Ministers Human Resource Management Advisory Committee (MAC)
B)Human Resources Council
C)Privy Council Office
D)External Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation

Question 21

Since the mid-1980s, there has been a fairly consistent decrease in the number of Canadians working in the public sector.

Question 22

Casual employees can only be part-time employees.

Question 23

The Public Service Labour Relations Board is a quasi-judicial tribunal.

Question 24

The Privy Council Office exercises a major influence on human resources policy and appointments for the most senior ranks of the public service.

Question 25

The Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer is housed in the Privy Council Office.

Question 26

The Treasury Board Secretariat is one of the major agencies that deals with Human Resource management at the federal level.