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Human Resource Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Consider the needs - build an applicant pool - evaluate the applicants - hire and train






2. Represents unintentional employment discrimination






3. Relies on critical incidents






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






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






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






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


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






9. Is used to describe manual and repetitive production jobs






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Background noise






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






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






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






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






25. Intrinsic / extrinsic motivation


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






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






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






29. Hygiene factors -created by Frederick Herzberg






30. Grades are defined by the requirements found to be common to sereral tasks spanning different departments






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. Paying new hires at a lower rate






35. Uses a 5-10 vertical scales






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






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






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






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






40. Stocks go into a trust






41. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






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






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


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






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






46. Purpose of job evaluation






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






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






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






50. 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