GUIDE QUESTIONS
I. INSTITUTION OVERVIEW
1. What is the name of your institution and who is the owner?
2. What is the History of your organization?
How long is NIA (Naga Office) established?
When is it instituted?
3. What are the Mission, Vision, and Corporate Goals of NIA?
How important is it for both its employee and the organization itself?
4. Can we have a copy of your organizational structure?
Why is there a need for an organizational structure in a company?
5. What industry are you a part of?
What are the products/services that you offer to the public?
II. HRM OVERVIEW
1. What is the HRM of NIA? How does it differ from other institutions?
2. What is the role of HRM in the institution? What makes it important?
3. What are the principle which HRM gives emphasis on to employees?
4. How does the HR respond and comply with different laws mandated by the government in terms of
HR policy?
5. What are the HR policies and regulation implemented in this institution?
6. How does HR affect the institution and its employees?
III. HRM FUNCTIONS
Human Resource Planning
1. How do you develop action plans to ensure that competent human resources are available to the
organization?
2. Have you experienced having shortages in human resources, and how do you deal with it?
3. Have you experienced having surpluses in human resources, and how do you deal with it?
Job Analysis
1. Does your company have a Job Analysis? If yes, is it beneficial in your company?
2. Alongside with Job Analysis are Job Description and Job Specification, through these, can the
company easily track candidates who have required qualifications and qualities to perform a
job?
3. What ways do you use to conduct a job analysis?
4. What are the factors needed to consider in order to tell if a job is needed or not?
5. How do you determine the details of job duties and requirements?
Recruitment
1. What are your pre-employment requirements for those aspiring to work in your company?
2. What is the internal and external process of recruitment in your company?
3. What are the traits and behaviors does your recruiter possess in order to effectively select the
best candidate from the pool of applicants to fill up a vacant position?
4. How do HR plan for recruitment and how do HR conduct their recruitment process?
5. What do you prefer? Internal or External Recruitment? Why?
What recruitment methods do you use? (e.g. referrals, promotions, …)
6. Does Nia engage in alternative forms of recruitment such as outsourcing, part-timers,
temporaries, etc.? Why?
7. What is the importance of effective recruitment process?
Selection
1. How often do you have promotion in your company? What makes an employee a candidate for
promotion?
2. What kind of tests do you use to help select the best qualified applicant for a job vacancy?
3. For interviews, do you usually use structured or unstructured ones?
4. How do yopu conduct selection process?
5. What specific things does the applicant need to comply with in order to qualify for the job?
6. How do you test the validity of an applicant's resume?
7. What kinds of tests do you administer for applicants? Why?
8. What kinds of interviews do you conduct for them? Why?
9. Do you require your applicants to have a physical/medical exam? Why?
Performance Management
1. What are the steps does your company has to have a performance management system?
2. What are the tools does your company uses to evaluate the performance of your employees?
3. How does your company handle the performance of your employees?
Personnel movement
1. What are the employment policies and practices?
2. What is the use of performance appraisal?
3. What is the objective of employee performance rating system?
4. What are the steps involved in hiring the right people?
5. How many hours should your employees work a day?
6. What benefits does your company offer to your employees?
7. Do you have sanctions to employees not complying with the institutions policies and
regulations? What are those and elaborate.
8. How do you respond to retirement, termination, and firings of employees?
What are your standards for termination of an employee?
9. How do you maintain employees?
Training and Development
1. What are the trainings that your company give to the employees to develop their skills? How
many times, is it annually? Semiannual, Monthly or others?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages that the company found having the training?
3. Did the employees or the company become productive after the training? What are those things
that made it productive?
Labor Relations
1. What is the role of the labor relations manager in regards to the industrial relation labor
program?
2. Have you successfully reconciled a difference between an employer and an employee? What
methods made you successful?
3. What are your experience in interpreting contractual agreements for employers and employees
engaged in labor relations process?
4. What are your previous experience meeting with union, company, or government parties to
discuss labor relation matters?
5. How do you ensure a healthy environment inside your organization?
6. How do you resolve employee conflicts?
Compensation Management
1. What are the Compensations that the employees receive? In what form are the compensation
given?
2. How do you manage Raises in salary and what are the payroll implications?
3. Is there a need for compensation management in your company?
4. What benefits dos the institution offer to its employees other than compensation?
