Chapter 4 + 5 Flashcards

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Labor Force Participation Rate

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The percentage of the population working or seeking work.

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Work

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Effect directed toward accomplishing results

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Job

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Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee

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Workflow Analysis

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Study of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves through an organization

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Job design

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organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into the productive unit of work

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job redesign

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changing the existing jobs in different ways it to improve them

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Contigent worker

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Someone who is not a full time employee but is a temporary or part-time worker for a specific period of time and type of work

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Person-job fit

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Matching the characteristics of people with the characteristics of jobs

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job enlargement

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broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks that are performed

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job enrichment

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increasing the depth of the job by adding responsibility for planning, organizing, controlling, and/or evaluating the job

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job rotation

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process of shifting a person from job to job

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skill variety

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extent to which the work requires several activities for succesfful completion

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task identity

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Extent to which the job includes a recognizable unit of work that is carried out from the start to finish and results in a known consequence

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task significance

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imapct the job has on other people and the organization as a whole

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autonomy

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exent of indivgual freedom and descretion in the work and its scheduling

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16
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feedback

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the amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed

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17
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Special-purpose team

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organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services

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self directed team

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organizational team composed of indiviguals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished

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virtual team

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organizational tema that includes induviguals who are seperated geographically but are linked by communications tecchnolgy

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telework

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Employees complete work through electronic interactions, telecommunications, and internet technology

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compressed work week

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a workweek in which a full week’s work is accompished in fewer than five days of eight hours each

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job sharing

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scheduled arrangement in which two employees perform the work of a full time job

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Work-life balance

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Employer-sponsored programs designed to help employees balance work and personal life

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job analytics

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systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs

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task
distinct, identifiable work activity comprised of motions that employees perform
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Duty
Larger work segment somprised of several tasks that are performd by indiviguals
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Responsibilities
Obligations that individuals have to perform certain tasks and duties within a job
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competencies
Indivigual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by indiviguals or teams
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Marginal job functions
Duties that are part of a job but are incidental or ancillary to the purpose and nature of the job
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Job Description
Identifies a job's tasks, duties, and responsibilities
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Job specification
the knowledge, skills, and abilities an indivigual needs to perform a job satisfactorily
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Performance standards
Indicators of what the job accomplishes and how performance is measured in key areas of the job description
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Motivation
The desire that exists within a person that causes the indivigual to act
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Equity
The percieved fairness of what the person does compared with what the person receives for doing it.
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Psychological contract
The unwritten expectations employees and employers have about the nature of their work relationships
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Job satisfaction
the positive feelings and evaluations derived from an indivigual's employement in a job
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Attitude survey
A survey that focuses on employees feelings and beliefs about their jobs and the organization
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Organizational commitment
the degree to which workers believe in and accept organizational objectives and want to remain employed at a company
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Employee engagement
The extent to which an employee's thoughts and behaviors are focused on his or her work and their employer's success
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Loyality
Being faithful to an institution or employer
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Organizational citizenship behavior
occurs when an employee acts in a way that improves the psychological well-being and social environment of an organization
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Aabsenteeism
any failure by an employee to report for work as scheduled or to stay at work when scheduled
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Turnover
The process in which employees leave an organization and have to be replaced
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Churn
Hiring new workers while laying off others
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Exit Interview
An interview in which indiguals who are leaving the organization are askd to explain their reasons