Chapter 4 - Workforce, Jobs, and Job Analysis Flashcards
Define “Labor Force Participation Rate”.
-The percentage of the population working or seeking work.
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Define “Work”.
-Effort directed toward accomplishing results.
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Define “Job”.
-Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee.
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Define “Workflow Analysis”.
-Study of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves through an organization.
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Define “Job Design”.
-Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.
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Define “Job Redesign”.
-Changing existing jobs in different ways to improve them.
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Define “Contingent Worker”.
-Someone who is not a full-time employee but is a temporary or freelance worker for a specific period of time and type of work.
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Define “Job Simplification”.
-Breaking a more complex job into relatively small subparts.
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Define “Job Enlargement”.
-Broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks that are performed.
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Define “Job Enrichment”.
-Increasing the depth of a job by adding responsibility for planning, organizing, controlling, and/or evaluating the job.
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Define “Job Rotation”.
-Process of shifting a person from job to job.
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Define “Skill Variety”.
-Extent to which the work requires several activities for successful completion.
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Define “Task Identity”.
-Extent to which the job includes a recognizable unit of work that is carried out from start to finish and results in a known consequence.
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Define “Task Significance”.
-Impact the job has on other people and the organization as a whole.
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Define “Autonomy”.
-Extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling.
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Define “Feedback”.
-The amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed.
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Define “Special-Purpose Team”.
-Organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services.
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Define “Self-Directed Team”.
-Organizational team composed of individuals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished.
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Define “Virtual Team”.
-Organizational team that includes individuals who are separated geographically but who are linked by communications technology.
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Define “Flexible Work Arrangements”.
-Enables employees to perform their jobs independent of time and location.
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Define “Coworking Space”.
-Communal space shared by freelancers and remote workers.
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Define “Work-Life Integration”.
-Employer-sponsored programs designed to help employees blend and bring elements of work and life together.
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Define “Job Analysis”.
-Systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs.
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Define “Task”.
-Distinct, identifiable work activity comprised of motions that employees perform.
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Define “Duty”.
-Larger work segment comprised of several tasks that are performed by individuals.
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Define “Responsibilities”.
-Obligations that individuals have to perform certain tasks and duties within a job.
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Define “Competencies”.
-Individual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by individuals or teams.
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Define “Triangulation”.
-Using two (or more) methods in a study to increase validity of the results.
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Define “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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Define “Job Description”.
-Identifies a job’s tasks, duties, and responsibilities.
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Define “Job Specification”.
-The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) an individual needs to perform a job satisfactorily.
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Define “Performance Standards”.
-Indicators of what the job accomplishes and how performance is measured in key areas of the job description.
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