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Human Resource Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Represents unintentional discrimination






2. How essential job tasks are related to the job






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






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






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






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. Gainshareing - incentives for employee suggestions






8. Relies on critical incidents






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






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






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






12. Matches rating with employee behavior






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Comparing each employee to every other employee






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






21. Ethics can be legislated - Procurement Integrity Act and the Corporate and Auditing Accountability Responsibility and transparency act are examples






22. Scientific analysis of your handwriting






23. Is a competency model of individual






24. Includes both monetary and non-monetary rewards






25. 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






26. Self determination theory






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. Paying new hires at a lower rate






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






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






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






43. Is used to describe manual and repetitive production jobs






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






45. 30 percent of employees require what?






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






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






48. The ideal requirements of a job or person






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






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