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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. Keeping a record of an employees positive or negative behavior






2. For a few predetermined key jobs - points are allotted and wage rates for such key jobs are fixed






3. Ideal traits for a position






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






5. Represents intentional discrimination






6. Represents unintentional discrimination






7. Often lead to reduced productivity - layoffs have indirect and direct costs






8. Comparing each employee to every other employee






9. Background noise






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






11. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






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






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


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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






23. Is a questionnaire technique of job analysis used to collect information from incumbents and supervisors - 151 job tasks rated in terms of importance






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






25. Based on employee's depth of knowledge






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






27. Is the process used to collect information about the duties responsibilities necessary skills outcomes and work environment of a particular job






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






29. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation


30. Categorizing exactly what skills and tasks a specific job requires






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






32. How essential job tasks are related to the job






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






34. Indicates that exceptions can result in the achievement of self-fulfilling prohecies






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






36. The ideal requirements of a job or person






37. Is when a union's right revoked as the exclusive bargaining agent for workers






38. 30 percent of employees require what?






39. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






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






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






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






43. Is a formal and systematic approach to analyzing jobs and categorizing them in regard to their relative worth in an organization - compensation factors






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






45. the minimal qualifications required for a particular job are referred to as...






46. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






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






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






49. Hygiene factors -created by Frederick Herzberg






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