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Exam 2 - Study Guide Flashcards

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What is the yield ratio?

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The percentage of applicants from a recruitment source that makes it to the next phase of the selection process

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How to calculate yield ratio

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(#of total applicants-hired)/# of total applicants

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Realistic job preview

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Informing applicants about all aspects about the job including the good and bad parts

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Advantages Using Internal recruitment:

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  • More valid assessment of candidates
  • Reduces training time
  • Cheaper
  • Faster
  • Motivates current employees
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Disadvantages Using internal employees:

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  • Creates vacancies
  • Can stifle politics diversity
  • Insufficient supply of candidates
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Advantages of using external recruitment

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  • increase diversity
  • Facilitates growth
  • Can save training time
  • New/novel problem solving
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Disadvantages of using external recruitment:

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  • Expensive
  • Slower
  • Less valid data on candidates
  • Stifles upward movement of personnel
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Understand the following common external recruitment methods: walk-ins/unsolicited applicant files, referrals, advertising, campus visits

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These are outlets on how to recruit people for positions for an organization. Look at the extra credit example

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Reliability

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The pre-condition for validity

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High Validity

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  • Comparing a set of results to job performances

- Keynote: High validity = High reliability

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Criterion-related validity

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Extent of prediction or correlation of test scores with performance measure.

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Content validity

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Extent in which test contents asses to the requirements of the job

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Validity Generalization

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Extent in which validity coefficients can be generalized across situations. Use between 2 different industries

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Inappropriate Question

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Could not find anything in the book I am assuming it was in the pink sheet
Found online: Is this question job related? Is this question really needed to judge an applicant’s qualifications? (Not just nice to know, but actually needed for the job.) Does this question constitute an invasion of privacy?

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Appropriate Questions

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-Found online: Is this question job related? Is this question really needed to judge an applicant’s qualifications? (Not just nice to know, but actually needed for the job.) Does this question constitute an invasion of privacy?

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Application Forms

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The example can be seen in the pink she handed out. This the application where future interested applicants can apply for the job

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Biographical Information Blanks

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Personal Information ( Age, Sex, Race)

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Background Investigations

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Checking someone’s backgrounds before they work for an organization

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Polygraph

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Usually illegal now in days but is still used for certain jobs like pharmacies.

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Honesty and Integrity Testing

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Companies use this now instead of a polygraph test. These questions may be weird or straight forward.

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Graphology

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Looks at an individual had writing to determine if they are optimistic or fearful

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Medical Examination

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Medicals exams must be done to every individual that applies for a job. Cannot just be random. If one person does it everyone has to do it,

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Sources of information about job candidates

- Drug Testing

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Getting tested if someone does drugs duh.

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What are the 5 types of interviews?

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  1. Unstructured Interview
  2. Structured Interview
  3. Situation Interview
  4. Behavioral Interview
  5. Panel Interview
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Unstructured Interview

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There are NOT any pre-arranged questions. These interview are flexible

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Structured Interview

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There ARE pre-arranged questions. The validity is much higher than unstructured interviews

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Situation Interview

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Giving a hypothetical questions or scenario (future)

Ex: What would you do if you saw an employee stealing from the company

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Behavioral Interview

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A questions based on past experiences. (Past)

Ex: (How did you managed a terrible customer experience as being a representative for Cox)

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Panel Interview

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Where a candidate is interviewed by a group of interviewers

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Employment Test

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Person Job Fit (P-J)
Person Organization Fit (P-O)
Cognitive ability test
Personality Motivation Testing
Interview
Job Knowledge Test
Work Sample Test 
Aptitude Test
Achievement Test
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Person-Job Fit (P-J)

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Where we look at person’s knowledge, skills abilities

KSA’s

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Person-Organization Fit (P-O)

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Where we look if the person personalities match the company culture

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Cognitive ability test

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IQ test, Wonderlic Test. These tests exam speed, efficiency, knowledge, etc.

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Personality Motivation Testing

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This test exam the characteristics of the employees

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Interview

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Literally what it means.

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Job Knowledge Test

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Test knowledge on the employees’ job

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Work Sample Test

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A sample of behavior that can be used to predict future performance in similar work situations.

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Aptitude Test

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Assess one’s ability to learn

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Achievement Test

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It looks at how much you learn so far (Example would like an exam for a class)

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(5) Different selection decision strategies

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  1. Cost/ Resources
  2. Types of job/ target Audience/ industry
  3. # of positions
  4. Yield ratio / efficiency/ past success
  5. times
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Legal implication of a multiple-step process

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You can use exams score, individual assessments, and set cut-off scores

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A multiple hurdle model

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Multiple hurdle model
Multiple hurdles to get the job. For example you take an exam to get an interview. You pass one thing to get to the next step.

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Connecticut v. Teal

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They then brought an action in Federal District Court against petitioners (the State of Connecticut and certain state agencies and officials), alleging that petitioners had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by requiring, as an absolute condition for consideration for promotion, that applicants pass a written test that disproportionately excluded blacks and was not job-related.

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Negligent hiring: what is it; and as a reason to do background checks

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Not doing a background on individuals and hiring them

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Reason to do a background check:

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Verify information provided by applicant regarding previous employment and experience

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(5) Know different effective (and legal) ways to reduce adverse impact

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  1. Target recruitment strategies toward “qualified” minorities
  2. Focus on predicting all aspects of job performance, including citizenship behavior, helping co-workers, teamwork, and counter productive behavior
  3. Augment GMA, test use with noncognitive methods such as personality tests, peer assessments, interviews, and job preference instruments
  4. Use tools with less adverse impact early in the process and GMA test later providing the selection ratio is low
  5. Use accomplishment records, performance test, or works samples in lieu if GMA tests.
47
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Training

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Many companies do their own training or they hire someone to do the training

48
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Why do companies do training?

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Give you the tools to succeed on your job
avoid everyone making the same mistake
Tools for your potential (teacher)
save money (Teacher)

49
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What is development?

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Focuses on long term related goals

The company wants to prepare you for the future

50
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How are they different (training and development)?

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training is something you want to do now
development is more long term related goals
want to prepare you for the future

51
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What are the three phases of the systems model of training?

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  1. needs assessment
    identify what our the needs. is there a need for training. can you provide improve performance without training.
  2. development
  3. evaluation
52
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Needs assessment:

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understand:
Organizational analysis
Task analysis
Person analysis

53
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Organizational analysis (start with this)

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Organizational analysis (start with this) 
Current problem / Anticipated Need
do you have the resources available 
do you have management support 
very first one to do.
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Task analysis

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Tasks & Duties, Skills, and Knowledge Needed
Identifies what needs to be taught
you can also use what data you collected in the job analysis
Utilization of Job Analysis Data
- Importance
- Frequency
- Difficulty

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Person analysis: Who?

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Individual Proficiency

Utilization of Appraisal Data

56
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Components of effective instructional objectives

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  1. Performance
  2. Criteria
  3. Condition
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Performance

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What they are expected to be able to do after they are finished with training

58
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Criteria

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acceptable level of performance that you will expect out of them

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Condition

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under what circumstance will they able to use their newly learned skills

60
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Principles of learning: key thing to do

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As you are making a training program you have to incorporate as much as possible

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Principles of learning

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  • Meaningfulness of presentation
  • Feedback and reinforcement
  • Massed-versus-spaced learning
  • whole versus part learning
  • goal setting
  • active practice and repetition
  • overlearning
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Meaningfulness of presentation

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Why your job is important

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Feedback and reinforcement

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Tell them what they are doing wrong so they can learn from their mistakes
Also if they are doing it correctly tell them that so they can continue what they are doing

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Massed-versus-spaced learning

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  • Massed learning:
    6 hours of training. Chunks of hours of learning
  • Spaced learning
    1 hour and having a break and ask the trainees if you are learning correctly. In other words, you have breaks in between the training secession.
    Typically Spaced learning is best for complex tasks.
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Whole versus part learning

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  • Whole learning: You are going to learn all at once. (Example: Learning all the steps of making a pizza)
    Sometimes its best to use whole learning when there is no reason to breakdown it down further
  • Part Learning: You are going to learn little parts at once and break it down
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Goal setting

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Set specific goals instead of general goals.
It should be a challenging goal
Challenging and Specific

67
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Active practice and repetition

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Practice makes perfect

Have a lot of repetition

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Overlearning

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  • It is desirable under 2 circumstance
    If it’s not going to be used on the job
    since you won’t be able to practice on the job and some rare circumstance you need the skill
    performing under stress
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two keywords in goal setting

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challenging and specific

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Massed-versus-spaced learning (deals with _____)

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(deals with time)

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Whole-versus-part learning (deals with _____)

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(deals with task)

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Different criteria for evaluating training programs

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  • Reaction: Surveys, interviews
    • Reaction of the participants
  • Learning: Test, work sample
  • Behavior: Transfer of training, observations, performance ratings
  • Results: ROI, turnover rate
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Transfer of training

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  • Learning from training and transferring it onto your job

- If it hands on skills you should use hand on training

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(5) Common training methods

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  • Simulation
  • OJT
  • Classroom
  • Audiovisual
  • Behavior modeling
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Simulation
Other things
Good things about it?

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Simulation
Used to imitate real life situations
computerized simulations 
cockpit simulations are realistic and expensive 
medical 
Good thing about it
Risk free
76
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OJT

On-the-job training

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Jumping right into work from day one can sometimes be the most effective type of training.

77
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Classroom

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It seems the only advantage to a lecture is the ability to get a huge amount of information to a lot of people in a short amount of time. It has been said to be the least effective of all training methods.

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Audiovisual

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To be truly effective, training films and videos should be geared towards a specific objective. Only if they are produced effectively, will they keep the trainees attention

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Behavior modeling

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is the act of showing employees how to do something and guiding them through the process of imitating the modeled BEHAVIOR.

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(4) Factors to determine which training method to be used

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Learning outcomes: information, attitudes, motor skills
Cost
Transfer of training
Effectiveness

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Three objectives for orientation (found online)

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Typically, orientation conveys three types of information

  1. General information about the daily work routine;
  2. A review of the firm’s history, founding fathers, objectives, operations and products or services, as well as how the employee’s job contributes to the organisation’s needs; and
  3. A detailed presentation, perhaps, in a brochure, of the organisation’s policies, work rules and employee benefits.
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Difference between orientation and onboarding

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  • During the onboarding process, employees are thoroughly introduced to their department. They learn the culture and business objectives by participating in meetings and starter projects with co-workers.
  • At orientation, new hires are formally introduced to your organization and its culture, mission, vision and values. Ideally, new employee orientation should be conducted on the first day or weeks of employment
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What is career planning? What is a career development system?

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Career planning
Just planning your career and stuff
Google:
Career planning is the ongoing process where you: Explore your interests and abilities; Strategically plan your career goals; and. Create your future work success by designing learning and action plans to help you achieve your goals.

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Career development system

- 4 development activities

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  1. formal education
  2. assessment
  3. job experiences
  4. relationships
    She also talked about online training or online education which is more modern
85
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Formal education

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web-based, traditional

86
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Assessment

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Personality test, assessment center, 360-degree feedback, performance appraisals

87
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Personality Test

x

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Take a personality test to see your strengths and weaknesses

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Assessment Center

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A process by which individual visuals are evaluated as they participate in a series of situations that resemble they might be called upon to handle on the job

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360-degree feedback

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Ask feedback from your colleagues

90
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Personality test

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MBTI (he Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions.) - dont need to learn just read it over

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Job experiences

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Transfer, downward, promotion, international assignment, rotation

92
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Relationships

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Mentoring

93
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______ and ______ used for selection test

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reliable and valid

94
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Big five personality traits are:

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  1. Openness
  2. Conscientiousness
  3. Extraversion
  4. Agreeableness
  5. Neuroticism
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(4)Steps of Individual career planning

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  1. Self Assessment (bottom)
  2. Reality Check
  3. Goal Setting
  4. Action Plans (top)
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Self Assessment

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What are your strengths and weaknesses

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Reality Check

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  • What resources are available and available in the company

- You can talk to your mentor in the company to know more about the resources or the human resource unit

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Goal Setting

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  • Setting specific goals instead of more general goals
  • Where do you want to be
  • What occupation and level (manager)
  • Short term and long term goals
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Action Plans (top)

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Make sure you have a time table layout on what you can do and cannot do

100
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you start with in individual career planning

which is what position

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self assessment

bottom

101
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What does steps of individual career planning end with

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action plans

top

102
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Different types of development activities

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  • Assessment Center
  • in basket training
  • leaderless group discussions
  • mentors
  • mentoring functions
103
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Assessment Center

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A process by which individual visuals are evaluated as they participate in a series of situations that resemble they might be called upon to handle on the job

104
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  • in basket training
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A process of evaluation trainees by simulating a real-life work situation
Administrator work as a manager

105
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  • leaderless group discussions
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A process that places trainees in a conference setting to discuss an assigned topic, either with or without designated groups roles

106
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mentors

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More senior or experienced individuals who coach, advice, and encourage individuals of lesser rank

107
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  • mentoring functions
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Functions concerned with the career advancement and psychological aspects of the person being mentored

108
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Glass ceiling effect

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Artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organizational bias that prevent qualified women or minorities from advancing upward in their organizations into management level positions

109
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Glass ceiling effect

-effect

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  • Blacks, Hpsiances, and Native Americans;
    - 30% of the population v. 3% of senior mgt positions
  • Blacks and Hispanics in big law firms:
    - 5-10% first-year associates v. 2% partners
  • Women
    - 51.5% of management, professional, and related positions
110
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Break the class ceiling

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  • Consistently exceed performance expectations
  • Seek out difficult or challenging assignments
  • Develop a style with which male managers are comfortable with
  • Having influential mentors
111
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Outplacement Programs

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Google: Outplacement is the support service provided by responsible organizations, keen to support individuals who are exiting the business (voluntarily or involuntarily) – to help former employees transition to new jobs and help them re-orient themselves in the job market.

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