Chapter 5- HR planning

Question 1

Job analysis

Answer 1

Is the study of an employees job in order to determine the duties performed, the time involved with each of those duties, the responsibilities involved and the equipment required.

Question 2

Job description

Answer 2

Is a summery of what the worker will be doing–the role they will have in the organisation in terms of duties and responsibilities.

Question 3

Job specification

Answer 3

Will indicate the sort of person an organisation is seeking in terms of personal qualities, skills, education and work experience.

Question 4

Job design

Answer 4

Details the number, kind and variety of tasks the individual employees perform in their jobs. Jobs may be designed so they include a variety of tasks to keep employees interested and motivated.

Question 5

Recruitment

Answer 5

Is the process of attracting qualified job applicants from which to select the most appropriate person for a specific job.

Question 6

Employee selection

Answer 6

Involves choosing the candidate who best matches the organisation’s requirement.

Question 7

Discrimination

Answer 7

Occurs when a policy or a practice disadvantages a person or a group based on a personal characteristic that is irrelevant to the performance of the work.

Question 8

Full time permanent

Answer 8

Employees have an ongoing employment contract which includes all legally required entitlements,

Question 9

Part-time permanent employment

Answer 9

Involves working fewer ordinary weekly or monthly hours compared with full-time employees.

Question 10

Fixed-term contract

Answer 10

Is where employment is offered for a specific period.

Question 11

Casual employees

Answer 11

Are employed on an hourly basis.

Question 12

Remuneration

Answer 12

Is the monetary payment in return for the work an employee performs.

Question 13

Wage

Answer 13

Is an hourly or weekly rate of pay.

Question 14

Salary

Answer 14

Where an employee is paid a fixed amount per year, which is then divided by 26 to give a fortnightly salary, or by 12 to give a monthly salary.

Question 15

Salary sacrifice

Answer 15

Is forgoing salary in order to receive another non-cash benefit of equivalent value.

Question 16

On-costs

Answer 16

Are additional costs involved in hiring an employee, above the cost of their wages, and include superannuation, long service leave workers compensation.

Question 17

Induction

Answer 17

Is a process of acquainting new employees with the organisation–it’s history, structures, objectives, culture, policies and practices– and the jobs they will perform.

Question 18

Training

Answer 18

Generally refers to the process of teaching staff how to do their job more efficiently and effectively by boosting their knowledge and skills

Question 19

Development

Answer 19

refers to activities that prepare staff to take on greater responsibility in the future.

Question 20

Learning organisation

Answer 20

Monsters and interprets its environment, seeking to improve its understanding of the interrelationship between its action and environment.

Question 21

Succession planning

Answer 21

Focuses on preparing employees with potential to take on key management roles within the organisation’s future, should the need arise.

Question 22

Recognition and reward programs

Answer 22

Aim at both acknowledging the work an employee has done and providing some sort of benefit, such as cash, merchandise, travel or gift certificates, in return for a job well done.

Question 23

Intrinsic rewards

Answer 23

Come from the task or job itself, such as recognition or feedback or a sense of achievement.

Question 24

Extrinsic rewards

Answer 24

Are outside the job itself. They may be monetary or non-monetary.

Question 25

Performance management

Answer 25

Focuses on improving both organisational and individual performance objectives to through relating organisational performance objectives to individual employee performance objectives.

Question 26

Performance appraisal

Answer 26

Is the formal assessment of how efficiently and effectively an employee is performing their role in the organisation.

Question 27

Performance feedback

Answer 27

Is the information provided to an employee after a performance appraisal.

Question 28

Termination

Answer 28

Is the ending of the employment of an employee.

Question 29

Retirement

Answer 29

Occurs when an employee decides to give up full time or part time work and no longer be part of the labour force.

Question 30

Resignation

Answer 30

Is the voluntary ending of employment by the employee “quitting” their job,

Question 31

Redundancy

Answer 31

Occurs when a person’s job no longer excists, usually due to technology changes, an organisation restructure or a merger or acquisition.

Question 32

Retrenchment

Answer 32

Occurs when a business dismisses an employee because there is not enough work to justify paying them.

Question 33

Dismissal

Answer 33

Occurs when the behaviour of an employee is unacceptable and an organisation terminates their employment,

Question 34

Unfair dismissal

Answer 34

Is when an employee is dismissed because the employer has discriminated against them in some way, such as firing someone because she is pregnant.

Question 35

Human Resource planning

Answer 35

Is the development of strategies to meet the organisation’s future human resource needs.