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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. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






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






4. Direct observation - work methods - critical incident technique






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






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






7. Self determination theory






8. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






9. Purpose of job evaluation






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






11. Path that describes both vertical and horizontal moves






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






23. How essential job tasks are related to the job






24. Represents intentional discrimination






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






26. Hygiene factors -created by Frederick Herzberg






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






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






29. Stocks go into a trust






30. Paying new hires at a lower rate






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Relies on critical incidents






39. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation


40. 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






41. 30 percent of employees require what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Is used to describe manual and repetitive production jobs






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