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Human Resource Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Requires the rater to use persuasion to change the employees behavior






2. Jobs are ranked on the basis of responsibilities and duties and their importance to overall company objectives






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






4. The proces of making a list of the exact tasks or activities that an individual in a specific job does






5. Job evaluation designed for managers






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






7. Is a specific scientific way of categorizing exactly what skills and tasks a specific job requires






8. Based on the notion that individuals sometimes have a drive to reach a clearly defined end state






9. Relies on critical incidents






10. A variation of simple ranking job evaluation plans orders all jobs from lowest to highest based on coparing the worth of each job






11. Compensation programs that are tied to increases in productivity and profits






12. Paid per piece completed instead of per hour






13. Human resource management has moved from organizations that were structured in what terms of style?






14. Questionaire technique of job analysis -developed by McCormick-Jeanneret and Mecham






15. The ideal requirements of a job or person






16. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






17. A set of compensable factors are identified as determining the worth of jobs






18. 30 percent of employees require what?






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






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






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






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






23. Represents intentional discrimination






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






25. Rating employees as a group from best to worst on a particular area






26. Is a test validation method that determines if a test measure traits or constructs that are import to the performance of a job






27. 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






28. Hygiene factors -created by Frederick Herzberg






29. 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






30. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation






31. Self determination theory






32. Direct observation - work methods - critical incident technique






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






34. 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






35. Technique of job analysis that was developed by the Employement and Training Administration of the US






36. A questionnaire technique of job analysis - computer administered for job analysis - developed by Saville and Holdsoworth






37. Uses host country national for all positions - polycentric staffing






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






39. Background noise






40. Criteria - economic considerations-technical considerations - time and space-skill requirements-machinery - industrial relations






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






42. Ideal traits for a position






43. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






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






45. The primary concerns of industrial psychology is which the basic relations in industry between worker and machine






46. Stress that we can use positively for our personal growth






47. Comparing each employee to every other employee






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






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






50. the identification of team and or individual strengths and weakness is most accurately reflective of which process?