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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. Scientific analysis of your handwriting






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






3. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Represents intentional discrimination






12. Relies on critical incidents






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






14. Comparing each employee to every other employee






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






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


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






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






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






21. Purpose of job evaluation






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. Is a competency model of individual






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






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






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






33. Age discrimination






34. Paying new hires at a lower rate






35. Represents unintentional discrimination






36. Includes both monetary and non-monetary rewards






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






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






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






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






41. Is used to describe manual and repetitive production jobs






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






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






44. Contains hands on skills






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






46. Background noise






47. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






48. Is the ideal traits for a position (self starting - works well under pressure - familiar with office machines)






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






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