CH 15 Flashcards
What are some of the characteristics of the best companies to work for?
- Encourage open communication
- Room for promotion
- Stress quality in output
- Profit sharing
- Reduced distinctions between ranks
- Pleasant work environment
- Matching funds for saving plans
- Feeling part of a team
What (tasks or functions) does staffing include?
• Hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, job design and training
What is an integrated staffing model and what components does it include?
• Orderly flow of moving people into through and eventually out of the organization
What are skill standards?
• The level of performance necessary to be successful in a job
What are the benefits of using skill standards?
-so you don’t have a complete incompetent dumbs working for yee
Recruitment-sources Internal
promotions, transfers, rehires; friends and relatives of employees
Recruitment-sources External
from media sources (newspapers and web ads), employment agencies, schools, labor unions, agencies for the disabled, refugee or immigrant agencies
What are the disadvantages of employing relatives?
- Conflict of interest
- Qualification standards
- Scheduling conflicts
What types of information do employment applications ask?
• Biographical data- name, address, telephone number, work experience, and education
o references
• Illegal to ask about race, religion, sex, age, martial status or national origin
What is the purpose of the selection interview?
• Obtain information about the applicant’s skills and qualifications
What information or questions are illegal to ask on applications or during the interview?
• Race, age, sex, religion, sex, martial status or national origin
- Face-to-face
- Panel/committee
- Behavioral
- Telephone
- Group
- Lunch or dinner interview
- Stress interview
TYPES OF INTERVIEWS (see hand out)
- Open ended-“tell me about…”
- Closed ended (factual)- “yes” or “no”
- Hypothetical- “what would you do if…”
- Behavioral- uses past experiences to predict future behaviors
- Psychological tests/Health examinations
Types of interview questions-
How do you plan and conduct an interview?
YA JUST DO?
What is the most important phase of staffing?
ORIENTATION
What is the orientation for?
• Introducing a new employee to job and company
What types of information are presented in an orientation?
- Company policies
- Available benefits
- Expectation
- Completion of documents
- Introduction to coworkers
- Intro to job
What are the advantages of a good training program?
- Reduction in labor turnover
- Absenteeism
- Decrease in accidents
- Decrease in production costs
- Increase employee morale, job satisfaction and productivity
What is the first step in developing a training program?
• Decide what training is needed
What are the different types of training?
Group training-save time for trainer and provides interaction that comes from a group setting
• On-the-job-training- tasks learned on the job through day to day experience
What is a performance evaluations used for?
- Used to determine job competence, need for additional training or counseling, and to review the employees progress in the organization
- Should be ongoing and employees should know what is expected and that they are being evaluated
What are the different types of performance evaluations?
- Critical-incident appraisal method
- Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
- Management by objective
How are performance evaluations conducted?
• Measures for competence
How are promotions and transfers related to performance evaluations?
• How well a person performs determines if they get promoted
What is a “competence” evaluation (healthcare)?
• Evaluates if the basic skills can be performed
Explain the step-wise process used in disciplining employees?
- Investigate by interviewing parties involved
- Compare infraction to policies
- Consider if infraction is the result of a clack in training or unclear instruction
- Determine level of disciplinary action (verbal, written, suspension, termination)
- Involve human resource department depending on the severity of the situation or per facility guidelines
- Counsel in private
- Two managers or a manager and a supervisor should be present during all counseling sessions
- Don’t make the counseling personal