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4. Human Resources Flashcards

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What is External recruitment?

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Filling a job vacancy from any suitable person not already employed by the business

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What is Internal recruitment?

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Takes place when a job vacancy is filled from within the existing workforce

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What is selection?

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Choosing the right employees from among those who have applied for a job

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What is an organisational structure?

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The way a business arranges itself to carry out its activities

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What is an organisational chart?

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A plan showing the roles of all the employees in a business

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What is a line manger?

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An employee’s immediate superior/boss

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What is authority?

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The power to control others and to make decisions

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What is span of control?

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The number of employees managed directly by another employee

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What is levels of hierarchy?

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The layers of authority within a business

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What is delayering?

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The removal of one or more levels of heirarchy from a business’s organisational structure

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What is delegation?

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The passing down of authority to more junior employees

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What is a flat organisational structure?

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Has wide spans of control and few levels of hierarchy

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What is a tall organisational structute?

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Has narrow spans of control and a larger number of levels of hierarchy

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What is communication?

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The exchange of information between two or more people

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What are the three types of communication?

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Downward, upward and horizontal

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What is Decentalisation?

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Allows employees working in all areas of the business to make decisions

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What is centralisation?

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Occurs when a small number of senior managers in a business take all the important decisons

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What is diversification?

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Occurs when a business starts selling new products in new markets

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What is retention?

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The proportion of a business’s workforce who reain with the business over a period of time, usually one year

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What is recruitment?

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The process of finding and appointing new employees

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What are the stages in the recruitment process?

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  1. Business needs new employees
  2. Job descriptions and person specifications drawn up
  3. Job positions are advertised internally or externally
  4. Applications are received and kept until the closing date
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What is job analysis?

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The collection and interpretation of information about a job

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What is a job description?

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States information about the duties and tasks that make up a particular job

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What is a person specification?

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Sets out the qualifications and skills required by an employee to fill a particular job

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What is a curriculum vitae?

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Provides information about a person e.g. qualifations, employment history and interests

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What is the selection process?

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  1. Match application forms or CVs against the job specification
  2. Draw up a shrtlist of candidates
  3. Invite applicants to attend the selection process
  4. Selection process: interviews, psychometric tests, assessment centre
  5. Choose the best applicants on the basis of perfromance in the selection process
  6. Inform all candidates of the decision taken
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What is productivity?

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The quantity of goods or services produced by an employee over a period of time, such as one year

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What is quality?

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The extent to which customers’ requirements are met

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What is customer service?

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The part of a business’s activities that is concerned with meeting customers’ needs as fully as possible

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What is a contract of employment?

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A legal document stating the hours of work, rates pay, duties and other conditions under which a person is employed

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What is full-time employment?

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Occurs when someone works a number of hours equal to the normal betweem 35 and 40 hours

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What is part-time employment?

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Takes place when an employee works for fewer than the normal number of working hours per week

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What is job share?

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Exists when two or more employees agree to share the responsibilities of a single job

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What is a zero hour contract?

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Hireing staff without any guaranteed hours of work

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What is Motivation?

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The range of factors that influence people to behave in certain ways

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What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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  1. Self-actualisation
  2. Self-esteem needs
  3. Love and belonging needs
  4. Safety needs
  5. Physiological needs
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What is a retention rate?

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keeping employees working for a business (not making them leave)

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What are the benefits of a motivated workforce?

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  • Productive workers
  • Few people leave (high retention rates)
  • High levels of sales
  • Easier to attract new employees
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What is job enrichment?

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Designing a job to give interesting and challenging tasks

40
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What is Fringe benefits?

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The ‘extras’ that employees may receive in addition to their pay, for example, a company car

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What are non-financial methods of motivation?

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Job enrichment,
Training,
Managers who retain authority,
Managers who allow junior employees freedom to make decisions,

42
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What are financial methods of motivation?

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  • Salaries
  • Wages
  • Piecework
  • Commisson
  • Profit sharing
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What is piecework?

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A method of payment under which employees are paid according to the quantity of products they produce

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What is the national living wage?

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An hourly rate of pay which is set by the government. All employees above a certain age must receive at least this rate of pay

45
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What is training?

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A range of activities giving employees job-related skills and knowledge

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Why is training important?

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  • Improvements in productivity
  • More motivated employees
  • Improved rates of employee retention
  • High-quality goods and high levels of customer service
47
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Types of training

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Off-the-job
On-the-job
Induction

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Induction training

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The training given to an employee when he or she first starts a job

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On-the-job training

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Given in the workplace e.g. work shadowing, formal training sessions and computer- based training

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Benefits and drawbacks of on-the-job training

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  • Can be cheap
  • Targeted to exact needs of business
  • Unlikely to bring new ideas into the business
  • Can result in more employees being unavailable to work
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Benefits of indution training

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Helps new employees to intergrate with existing workers

52
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Off-the-job training

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Provided outside the employee’s place of work

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Benefits and drawbacks of off-the-job training

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  • Can help to bring new ideas and approaches into a business
  • Can be used to motivate employees
  • Is expensive
  • Business that do off the job take a risk

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