Which hr resource function helps the organization understand the number and type of employees the organization will need in the future?
Planning
What are two societal trends that are influencing the world of work?
Increased competition and changed in communication technology
Which factor represents an organization's value system?
Corporate culture
Which activity does the strategic hr manager need to be engaged in since orgs survive on adaptation?
Managing succession by creating contingency plans for key employees
Which hr resource provides a broad range of support to the overall org?
Generalist
What was the purpose of the Executive Order 10925 that established affirmative action?
Mandate that managers of federally funded projects work to eliminate bias in employment practices
How does recruiting that creates excessively large applicant pool affect employee selection?
Cost of selection will increase due to the need to review and assess a high value of applicants
What is a type of direct compensation (i.e.: salary) that plays a strategic role in attracting and retaining qualified applicants?
Wages
Rewarding attendance at training class is which kind of performance improvement approach?
Compensation
What strategic role is an Hr dept showing by working on increasing diversity within the organization?
Champion for change
How should HR encourage high ethical standard of conduct in the workplace?
Holding monthly training sessions on integrity
Example of ethical violation
Sold trade secrets to competitor
Exception to the doctrine of employment-at-will
Implied contract
What is recognized by courts in several states as an implied contract that can be legally binding?
Employee handbook
Goal of Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Illegal to discriminate against individuals vase on their protected classes
Function of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
Enforcing federal anti-discrimination statuses
Outcome of effective diversity management within organizations?
Better sense of inclusion
Benefit to promoting organization's efforts to increase diversity on the company website?
Draws attention to diversity commitment
A woman turned down for a higher-paying position because the manager believes men perform the duties better than women is what kind of discrimination?
Gender discrimination
A black firefighter is asked to take his bed when changing stations because no white firefighter would sleep in it. What type of discrimination under Title VII is this?
Color
Job duties for marketing coordinator includes: planning international trade shows by identifying, assembling, and coordinating requirements; establishing contacts; developing schedules and assignments; coordinating mail listings....and?
Establishes and maintains accurate budgets
Small firm needs to dismiss one worker. Which performance appraisal system should the first use to choose which worker to lay-off in this context?
Straight ranking appraisal by a supervisor
How to develop potential job candidates before offering them permanent positions?
Internships
Characteristic of a learning organization
Focused on knowledge development across the firm
Performance appraisal method can make managers more aware of their impact on employees without feeling threatened?
Peer-appraisal
Where to locate candidates who have the most up-to-date knowledge of software development tools, but previous work experience not necessary?
Colleges offering the relevant degree
What factor should be considered in selecting the appropriate training media?
Employee readiness for training
Method used to confirm that a selection test measures what it is intended to measure by comparing the test to the job description (knowledge, skills, and abilities required to complete a job)
Content Validity
Describes how closely scores on a test correspond (correlate) with behavior as measured in other contexts
Empirical Validity ( Or predictive validity)
Requires demonstrating that a relationship exists between a selection procedure and a psychological trait or measure
Construct Validity
Why is HR planning important?
Ensures the right people in the right jobs at the right time
Determine corporate objectives, policies and plans, as well as other HR objectives and policies
Developing Data (Step 1 in HRP)
Understand the firm's human capital needs (demand) and then determine who is available to fill those needs (supply)
Establishing HR Objectives and Policies (Step 2 in HRP)
Actions plans to increase or decrease supply of employees
HR Programming (Step 3 in HRP)
Controlling and evaluating HR plans and programs to show effectiveness
Control and Evaluation (Step 4 in HRP)
A method of group decision-making and forecasting that involves successively collating the judgments of experts. A large number of experts take turns presenting a forecast statement and assumptions. An intermediary passes each expert's forecast and assumptions to the others, who then make revisions to their own forecasts. This process continues until a viable composite forecast emerges.
Delphi Technique
A group process involving problem identification, solution generation, and decision-making. Several people sit around a conference table and independently list their ideas on a sheet of paper. After ten to twenty minutes, they take turns expressing their ideas to the group. As these ideas are presented, they are recorded on larger sheets of paper so that everyone can see all the ideas and refer to them in later parts of the session
Nominal grouping technique
A projection of future demand is based on a past relationship between the organization's employment level and a variable related to employment, such as sales
Simple linear regression
An extension of simple linear regression analysis. However, in multiple linear regression, instead of relating employment to just one variable, multiple variables are used
Multiple linear regression
The most common method of estimating HR demand. Managerial estimates are typically made by top management (a top-down approach)
Judgmental forecasting
Historical data are used to examine the past level of a productivity index
Productivity ratios
Past HR data are examined to determine historical relationships among employees in various jobs or job categories
Human resource ratios
In a time series analysis, past staffing levels are used to project future HR needs
Time series analysis
Studies flow of people through an organization, translates structure into mutually exclusive states and determines probability of movement
Stochastic analysis
What are two statistical projection methods used to determine human resource demand?
Multiple linear regression and Stochastic technique
HR planning associated with the process of laying off employees who are no longer needed
Redundancy plan
At what age does the Age Discrimination in Employment Act begin to protect an individual from discrimination in the recruitment process?
40
What method is a company using to obtain applicants when an email about a job is sent to everyone?
Job posting
At which level of analysis are annual performance reviews?
Person
Only form of validity for making employment decisions (e.g., select, promote) is legally defensible if challenged in court?
Empirical Validity
Purpose of orientation for new hires
Helps new employees understand what is expected of them
Which hr activity relates to employees concerned about being held to duties that are not a part of their work requirements?
Job analysis
Difference between training and development
Training is for current job and development is for future job
Type of validity that identifies knowledge, skills, and abilities required to complete a job and needs no quantitative analysis
Content Validity
Selection instrument used to obtain information on the applicants motivation and details of previous experiences to get a more subjective feel for the candidates
Interview
Incentive that leads to enhanced productivity and subsequently creates additional earnings. Payment is made based on company profit
Gain-sharing
Indirect compensation can be integrated into the organization's strategic planning
Benefits
Effective way to gather relevant information about job applicants during the selection process
Application blank (or resume, CV)
HR generalists usually provide guidance to employees, support management, and serve as a source of help, information on human resource matters, maintain human resource information system records and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations
HR generalists
Outcome of poor reliability in a selection procedure?
Employees who are not a good fit for the organization
firm offers x with insurance, employee counters for x with no insurance...what are the pay structures?
Firm is offering fixed, employee is requesting fixed
Company should use to determine appropriate compensation level for new position
Job evaluation
