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Human Resource Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Often lead to reduced productivity - layoffs have indirect and direct costs






2. Based on employee's depth of knowledge






3. Is used to take the employee qualifications discovered in the job analysis and group them in terms of knowledge






4. Grades are defined by the requirements found to be common to sereral tasks spanning different departments






5. Physiology - safety - security - belongingness self esteem - self actualization






6. A specific kind of behavioral system requires job incumbents and their supervisors to identify performance incidents on the job behaviors and behavioral outcomes






7. Method is one of the simplest jobs are compared to each other based on the overall worth of the job






8. Because management of nonunion firms generally offered higher wages and benefits to reduce the chance those employees would seek union representation






9. Determining performance based on a written example of past behavior and future plans






10. Is knowledge and the affective domain contains feelings and attitudes






11. Purpose of job evaluation






12. Happen in the performance evaluation process when the rater evaluates the employee based on the raters negative or positive opinion of the employee






13. Based on the concept of the organization as an open system with the primary work group as a subsystem of the total organization






14. Matching ratings with employee behavior






15. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation






16. Are written statements that describe the duties - responsibilities - most important contributions and outcomes - required qualifications of candidates and reporting relationship and coworkers






17. Technique of job analysis that was developed by Harvey as a worker oriented job analysis instrument designed to have applicability to a broad range of exempt and non exempt jobs 41 questions +62 _80 _ 53 - 47






18. Personnel evaluation method seeking the measurement of employee work effictiveness






19. A listing of what a job includes such as tasks duties and responsibilities - analysis is the process of creating the job description)






20. Is the procedure that allows current employees of an organization to apply for a posted job opening when they have the qualifications for the job






21. Stocks go into a trust






22. specific kind of behavioral system displays illustrations of positive incidents of job performance for various job dimensions






23. How essential job tasks are related to the job






24. An intermediary between an employee and management who helps achieve justice in claims of unfair treatment






25. Scientific analysis of your handwriting






26. Keeping a record of an employees positive or negative behavior






27. Based on the Hegelian principle of achieving oneness of Mind through a three step process of thesis antithesis and synthesis - originally as a way to obtain the opinion of experts without necessarily bringing them together face to face






28. Describes work such as advertising that is done for a client without a contract or job order






29. A systematic assessment of job content - it establishes the worth of a job in terms of salary or wage compared to other jobs






30. Ideal traits for a position






31. Direct observation - work methods - critical incident technique






32. Rates employees as a group from best to worst on a particular area






33. Hires the best regardless of what country the employees come from






34. Capitalistic philosophy holding that business owners were entitled to complete control over employees






35. 30 percent of employees require what?






36. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






37. Moves the person out of the production area to learn a new skill






38. Comparing each employee to every other employee in a particular area






39. Is a method of job analysis to observe and record behavior






40. Rating employees on a list of traits or job requirements






41. An applicant is tested - hired then evaluated by their current supervisor






42. Ethics can be legislated - Procurement Integrity Act and the Corporate and Auditing Accountability Responsibility and transparency act are examples






43. Paying new hires at a lower rate






44. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






45. Theory posits that there are three groups of core needs - existence relatedness and growth






46. Ranking - factor comparison the classification and the point method






47. Regulates power between labor and management - prohibits management from using unfair labor practices like discouraging union membership






48. Requires the rater to use persuasion to change the employees behavior






49. A specific kind of behavioral system is based on the critical incident technique and these scales are developed in the same fashion with one exception






50. Method of job analysis used to identify work behaviors that classify in good and poor performance