HCM 405- Section 2 Flashcards
Understand how to calculate an FTE for one year of time
One FTE= 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 2080 hours/year
If one FTE works 40 hours per week then how many hours would the FTE work in one year?
2080
How many hours are typically in a standard work week?
40 hours
Define Human Resources
the department that handles all personnel matters. Providing service and advice to other organizational elements—activities include conducting job analyses, planning labor needs and recruiting, job candidates, selecting job candidates, orienting and training new employees, managing compensations, providing incentives, appraising performance, training and development, building employee commitment
Define Full-time equivalent
a computed statistic representing the number of full-time employees that could have been employed if the reported number of hours worked by part-time employees had been worked by full-time employees.
Define Labor budget
schedule of expected labor costs
Define Productive hours
time actually completing activities
Define down time
the length of time lost during an operation because of non-scheduled stoppages such as failure, delay, etc
Define Nonproductive hours
time waiting to complete activity
Define Cross-functional training
training the employees to be multi-skilled and multi-talented
Define KSAs
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
Define goals
general broad statements about what an organization wants to accomplish
Define terminal objectives
end result of what we want the learner to achieve by the end of the course
Define enabling objectives
steps that must be achieved before the terminal objective can be met (must be 2 or more per terminal)
Define Intrinsic compensation
compensation that is rewarded internally such as enjoying the job in itself, motivation, responsibility and pride in work
Define extrinsic compensation
compensation that is rewarded externally such as salary and benefits, awards and recognition, status
The typical human resources department is involved in employee activities related to recruitment, compensation, and benefits, training, and development, and employee relations: True or False
True
Which of the types of training presented below is described as training employees to perform operations in areas other than their associated job?
cross functional training
what is OSHA?
Occupational Safety and Health Act/ Admin: Concerning employee safety in the workplace; assures safe and healthful working conditions for working people and mandates that each employer shall furnish a place of employment which is free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees; authorized to promulgate legally enforceable workplace safety standards, responds to employee complaints, conduct on-site inspections; established hazard communications: rules that provide workers with right to know about hazardous substances they could be exposed to or handling
Ergonomics is the practice of designing equipment and work tasks to conform to the capacity of the worker, it provides a means for adjusting the work environment and work practices to prevent injuries before they occur: True or False
True
Define Job analysis
provide a title that conforms with an organization classification system; refers to various methods for analyzing requirements of job; purpose is to prepare job descriptions and specifications to hire quality employee
Define Job description
general statement that tells what a person does on a job and the conditions under which will work; has three parts; identifying information, job summary, and tasks to be performed; list of general tasks and responsibilities of position
Define Job specification
lists minimum qualifications like specific skills, effort and responsibilities; statement should be definite, direct, to the point; education requirements must be supported by the analysis of actual duties; skills must be supported
