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Human Resource Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. 30 percent of employees require what?






2. Relies on critical incidents






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






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






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






6. Includes both monetary and non-monetary rewards






7. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






8. Paying new hires at a lower rate






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






10. Stocks go into a trust






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






12. Keeping a record of an employees positive or negative behavior






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






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






15. Self determination theory






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






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






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






19. Background noise






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






21. Comparing each employee to every other employee in a particular area






22. Job evaluation designed for managers






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






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. 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






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






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






28. How essential job tasks are related to the job






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






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






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






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






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


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






35. Is a competency model of individual






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






37. Allows the employees to express their feelings about the appraisal and vent any feelings






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






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






40. Age discrimination






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






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






43. Contains hands on skills






44. Ideal traits for a position






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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