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2.5- Part 2 Flashcards

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How does a business recruit people?

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  • Must be fair, legal and ethical
  • Must follow Equality act 2010
  • Must attract people to work
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What are the 4 main documents that are used for recruitment?

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  • The person specification
  • Job description
  • The Application form
  • The curriculum vitae (CV)
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What is the person specification?

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The type of person required for the role. Included qualifications + work experience + any personal attributes

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What is the job description?

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The job itself. Includes duties+responsibilities of the person doing the job

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What essential info do job description contain?

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  • Title ( title of job +level of responsibility)
  • Department (what team they would work for)
  • Terms of employment( what the job will involve + salary band + hours)
  • Responsibilities( what they would do on a day to day basis)
  • Responsible to ( the person who would be their manager)
  • Written by and due date
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What requirements do person specifications have?

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  • Essential Requirements ( things that the candidate must have or else they will not be considered for the role)
  • Desirable Requirements ( things candidate may not have, but may be helpful when fulfilling the role)
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What do person specifications include?

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  • Qualifications
  • Experience
  • Knowledge and understanding
  • Skills
  • Character attributes
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Why are application forms useful?

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  • They make applicants fill in the same info that is needed to choose between them
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What is a curriculum vitae (CV)?

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  • Document that lists a person’s experience and qualifications
  • Helps employer have an overview of qualifications
  • May encourage more people to apply
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What are the 2 types of recruitment methods?

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  • Internal recruitment= when a role is only advertised to the business’s existing employees
  • External recruitments= when a role is advertised to potential applicants both inside and outside the business
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What are the advantages of internal recruitment?

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  • Fast recruitment
  • Easy to advertise
  • Cheaper than advertising externally
  • Could offer promotion jobs for employees
  • All candidates already know the business
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What are the disadvantages of internal recruitment?

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  • Limited choice of applicants
  • May cause problems among existing employees
  • Unlikely to bring any new ideas
  • Business will need to recruit another employee anyway
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What are the advantages of external recruitment?

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  • Higher number of potential candidates
  • May bring new skill into business
  • May bring new ideas into business
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What are the disadvantages of external recruitment?

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  • May take a long time to find the right candidate
  • Can be expensive
  • Candidate May turn out not to be as good as they seemed at the interview
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What are some recruitment methods?

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  • Interview
  • Test
  • Application form ( external applicants only)
  • Tour of facilities ( external applicants only)
  • Role play
  • Group discussion
  • Presentation
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What are the 2 main categories of training employees?

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  • Formal training

- Informal training

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Give examples of formal training

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  • Formal training is structured training
  • Conferences
  • Workshops
  • Presentations
  • Online training
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Give examples of informal training

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  • Informal training is less structures, deceived by a colleague
  • Observing colleagues
  • Talking to colleague
  • Reading newspapers/Magasine Articles
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What is self-learning?

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When a person teaches themselves without being supervised. Done by reading watching videos etc
Can increase skill + gain additional knowledge

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What is ongoing training?

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  • Training employees continue to do throughout their time in that role
  • Ensures everyone stays up to date
  • Business likely to have higher levels of productivity
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What are performance reviews and target setting?

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  • Meetings that managers have with their employees to discuss the employees performance in their role
  • Some employees set their own target depending on what they have to do
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Why do business train and develop employees?

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  • Is to obey legislation= the laws that the country must comply with
  • Enable employees to do their job well
  • Show employees that business values them
  • Identify any gals in ways roles are being performed
  • Ensure employees are up to date with changes in the Industry
  • Helps them motivate their employees
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What happens if an employee is motivated?

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  • More likely to work hard and stay with the company

- More likely to be retained= keep something or someone

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How does technology affect training?

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  • Tech is constantly changing
  • Staff need to be trained to use the new tech
  • Helps business adopt to the latest changes of tech
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What is motivation?

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Employees reason to work hard

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Benefit of highly motivated employees?

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  • Employee attendance at work is higher, stress=reduced
  • Reputation of the business improves coz employees will be proud + tell other people abt it
  • Employees productivity and work output during the day is higher so costs are lower coz business needs to pay less overtime
  • Employees stay at business for a longer time+helps avoid cost of having to work overtime
  • More ideas for improving the business
  • Communicate better with each other + complete their tasks efficiently
  • Business more likely to make higher profits

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