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Chp 9 Flashcards

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Describes the skills, abilities and qualifications require for a job

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Job specification

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The evaluation of the duties required by a particular job and skills required to perform it is referred to as

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Job analysis

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Money paid for time worked

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Wages

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Special payments such as a certain dollar amount of goods per year and paid above an employees salary, are referred to as

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Bonuses

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Links salary increases to performance levels

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Merit salary systems

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Employer paid time off for holidays and vacations, health, life and disability insurance to workers and counseling services for employees are exps of

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Benefits

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Legally mandated nondiscrimination on the basis of race creed, sex or national origin

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Equal employment opportunity

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Activities directed at attracting, developing, maintaining an effective workplace

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Human Resource Management

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Are critical for effective organizational functioning

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Human resources

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9
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Increase legal complexities
recognition of the value of HR in improving productivity
Awareness of the costs associated with poor HRM

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Growth in importance for HRM

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Lists of duties and responsibilities of a Job

Tells you what is the Job

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Job description

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Tells you what are the skills needed for the job

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Job specification

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Needs to forecast both internal and external supply of employees

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Forecasting HR demand and supply

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Number/type of people who will be in the format of a future event

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Forecasting internal supply

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Key employees only

Back up/contingency plan employees that are set to coach ones that will be promote if CEO died

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Replacement charts

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All employees
A database that has all the skills, programs that employees have that doesn’t involve their job
Often stored in a information system

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Employee skills inventory

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Both involves promoting

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Replacement charts and employee skills inventory

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Number/type of people who will be available of hiring from labor market at large

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Forecasting external supply

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18
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Not replacing employees who quit

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Attrition

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Firing you for cause

Because you did something wrong

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Termination

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Promotions from within

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Internal recruiting

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Changing your job but with the same skills

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Lateral Move

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Considering present employees as candidates for openings

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Internal Recruiting

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Seeking new hires
Retraining and transferring present employees
Installing more productive system

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Alleviating Shortfalls

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Attrition
Encouraging early retirement
Laying off personnel
Termination

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Managing overstaffing

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Closed position

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Laying off personnel

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Attracting people outside of the organization to apply for jobs
Employment agencies

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External recruiting

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A company that recruites jobs for other companies

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Employment agencies

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A advertisement that advertises the job but doesn’t say the companies name

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Blind advertisements

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If a ad says their hiring a fashion designer but doesn’t say for who is exp of

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Blind advertisements

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A advertisement that advertises the job and mentions the company

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Open advertisement

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A job ad that says Calvin Klein hiring a accountant is exp of

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Open advertisement

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Why do companies use a blind ad?

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So it won’t let the person who has the job to know your hiring someone else to take their position

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Drug tests
Physical examinations
Drug tests
Polygraph tests are all…

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Selecting human Resources Techniques

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Legal document with your signature

Asks applicant for information such as background, experience and education

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Application

35
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Selection technique most Likely to introduce bias(meaning judging)

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Interviews

36
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When are tests illegal?

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When the tests don’t measure the ability of what the job is

37
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Why do companies drug test?

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Because people who do drugs cost more money on health insurance

38
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Occurs while the employee is at his or her place of work

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On the job training

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Controlled environment

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Off the job training

40
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Offers and allows for focused study without interruption

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Controlled environment

41
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A type of realistic training in a stimulated off the job environment
A formal off the job training

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Vestibule training

42
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Pilot training
Flight attended
And bus drive training is exp of

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Vestibule training

43
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Begins with the defining of performance standards (a review of employee)

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Performance Appraisal

44
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When legally performance appraisal begin?

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When meseaurable standards are defined

45
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A consultant gets paid for a project done but if they don’t get a project done they don’t get the money is exp of

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Wages

46
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You get money paid the same amount regardless of how many hours you get

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Salary

47
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Type of salary increase

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COLA

48
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What does COLA stand for

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Cost Of Living Adjustment

49
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Employers offer a raise of 2% for just being a human being

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COLA

50
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What’s the problem of COLA?

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Everyone doesn’t deserve the same amount of money

51
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Special pay programs designed to motivate high performance

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Incentive programs

52
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Based on how hard you work

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Merit salary systems

53
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Free Stock

Incentive pay for distributing bonuses to employees when company profits rise above a certain level

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Profit sharing plans

54
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Mandatory (required by law)

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Benefit programs
Social security and retirement benefits
Workers compensation insurance

55
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Discretionary (optional)

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Health, life and disability insurance
Vacation and holidays
Employee assistance programs
Retirement (pension plans) 401K

56
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What is cafeteria benefit plans?

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Allows you to pick and choose what benefits you would want based cafeteria plan

57
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What are the pros for the employee using a cafeteria benefit plan?

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They get to choose which benefits they want to get

58
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What are the cons for the employer using cafeteria benefit plan?

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It can be expensive because all these different people are on different plans

59
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What do employee assistance programs do?

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It helps you be a more productive employee

60
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If you have depression the company will offer you a counselor this is exp of

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Employee assistance programs

61
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What does EAP stand for

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Employee Assistance Programs

62
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Name the employee assistance programs employers might offer

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Counseling
Child care
Senior care
Legal services 
Health lifestyles 
Pet care
Financial services
63
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What does EEO stand for

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Equal employment opportunity laws

64
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Protect workers from unfair or inappropriate discrimination in workplace

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EEO

65
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Federal policy about employment discrimination

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EEOC

66
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Individuals sharing common characteristics as defined by law
Race,color, religion, gender, age, disability and status s. military veteran

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Protected classes in the workplace EEOC

67
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Federal agency that enforces discrimination related law

Agency that overseas the law

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EEOC

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The law itself

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EEOP

69
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What does stand for EEOC?

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Equal employment opportunity commission

70
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Workplaces must be safe must not be hazards

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OSHA

71
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Covers pregnancy, cancer, mental impairments

Depression, physical disabilities

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ADA

72
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Sexual favors are requested in return for job related benefits

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Quid pro quo

73
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Equal employment opportunity is legally mandated nondiscrimination

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EEOC

74
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Workplace truanted by off-color jokes, lewd comments or actions decorate the work environment with inappropriate photographs may create a hostile work environment for a female

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Hostal work environment

75
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You can quit your job anytime and employer can fire you at anytime without telling you why

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Employment at will

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