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






2. A person's knowledge skills - abilities and other characteristics






3. Comparing each employee to every other employee






4. Scientific analysis of your handwriting






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






6. Consider the needs - build an applicant pool - evaluate the applicants - hire and train






7. Hygiene factors -created by Frederick Herzberg






8. Is devised in respect to recruitment -employee development-motivation and engagement






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






10. Direct observation - work methods - critical incident technique






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






12. Represents unintentional discrimination






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






14. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






15. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






16. Paying new hires at a lower rate






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






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






19. Ideal traits for a position






20. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation






21. Purpose of job evaluation






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Paid per piece completed instead of per hour






30. Job evaluation designed for managers






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. Relies on critical incidents






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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