hr Flashcards

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Explain the HC activities

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Human resource management, Human resource development and organizational development

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Example human capital

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Human Capital is the knowledge or experience of a person that is required by the job

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What is Organizational Development?

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OD is an systematic approach to improve the organization’s capabilities. In simple words, it is to know how to get things done.

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What are the components of OD?

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Knowledge management, comparability system management, Change Management, Quality of workplace

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What is Human Resource Development?

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HRM mainly focuses of people management, and also makes sure that the HRD improves and meets all the requirements by the external environment.

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What are the components of HRD?

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HR planning, Recruitment and selection, Benefits and compensation & Engagement

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Explain the Evolution of Human Capital

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Personnel, organizational, human resource management

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What are the constituents of HC and explain

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Intellectual Capital, Social Capital & Organizational capital. IC- stocks and flows of knowledge, intangible association with people, tangible money and physical assets. Social capital - knowledge of trust, connections and cooperation that holds the org together. Org- the knowledge the org actually owns

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Explain Knowledge management.

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Km is collaborative and integrated approach to creation, capture, org access, & use of enterprise’s intellectual assets. As Ryle (1946) mentioned about the two types of KM which is “knowing how” meaning an individual ability to perform the task & “knowing that” meaning that individual knowledge of the task.

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What are the 2 critical activities of KM?

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Tacit Knowledge & Explicit Knowledge

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Why is KM so important?

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Globalization of businesses, Leaners org, leaning new knowledge, advance tech growth.

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What are the benefits of KM to 3 groups?

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Individual, community and organization

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Explain the fish diagram of KM process.

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KU (knowledge vision, knowledge sharing, knowledge assets)

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What is the difference between TACIT VS EXPLICIT?

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Tacit is to be able to adapt, collaborate and to coach & mentor. Explicit is to reproduce, access and re-apply knowledge as well as organize and systematize

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Define Iceberg model.

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top part - explicit (documents and records) can be easily found and applied. Middle part - conscious knowledge (tacit) experience and commitment. Knowledge that people have. Unconscious Knowledge - knowledge that is invisible, inaccessible and overlooked.

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Important issues and challenges of KM.

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Adapting to change, competitors, up-to-date knowledge, crisis management, satisfying guests demands.

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What is balanced scorecard?

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It is a metric used to identify, improve and control various functions. Its purpose to help org assign prioriety to products, projects and services, plan routine activities and managing goals and targets.

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What are the perspective of BSC?

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finance, customer, business processees and learning & growth

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The key success of BSC.

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==leadership from the top (aligning the org with the focus on change)==
- ==Make strategy everyone’s job (aligning goals, resources to create awareness)==
- ==unlock and focus hidden process (re-engineer work process)==
- ==make strategy a continuous process.==

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what is a happy workplace? -

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==environment that intentionally encourages, initiates and supports fun activities and giving out rewards.

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factors of a happy workplace

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Fairness, being valued, understanding org vision, having trust

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the 4 “s” workplace fun framework

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==Staff-oriented “ extra time off, wellness programs, flexible work schedules”==
- ==Supervisor-oriented “ informal gathering, happy hour, lunch days”==
- ==social-oriented “ annual dinners, org picnics, family compeition, charityfun”==
- ==strategy-oriented “management practices, casual dress up, participation programs, family-friendly policies”==

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what is change management?

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==change management is to prepare, equip, and support individuals. to adopt change for org, success, and outcomes.==

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Kotter’s eight step of change

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==creating a sense of urgency (everyone needs to be ready and motivated for change)==
- ==putting together a team==
- ==developing vision and strategies==
- ==communication==
- ==remove barriers to action==
- ==accomplish short-term wns==
- ==build on change==
- ==make change stick==

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What is peste?

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==PESTE Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environment==

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The main barriers and resistance of change in organizations

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High cost, Time limitations, fear of insecurity, lack of skills and resources, unpleasing previous experience.

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What is selection and what is it’s process?

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selection is what employers use to make decisions and its process is to interview and evaluate indiv, for specific jobs

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3 components for high -impact recruitment programs

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==Message : to identify elements that can be important to job seeks such as CSR, remote work, diversity. Engagement with applications: engagement requires a multi-channel communications. Recognize that recruitment is a broader staffing supply chain: screening, selecting, offering , closing the deal

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Defining requirements of persons specification -

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==knowledge, skills and abilities, behaviour, attitude, qualifications,==

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how to interview? -

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==Non-directive - no topic has been set==
- ==Structured- knowing what to ask, prepare questions==
- ==Situational- provide a case and ask questions==
- ==behavioral description - ask about the specific tasks in the past.==
- ==panel interview- more than one interview==
- ==computer interview- answer on computer==
- ==stress interview - create a scenario and observe how you deal with it==
- ==mass interview - several interviewees at the same time.==

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What are the 3 selecting testing?

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==knowledge test (IQ, memory)==
- ==psychology test (EQ & ethics/moral & personality)==
- ==Aptitude test (occupational, job-related tests)==

32
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. Big 5 personalities traits?

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==Conscientiousness==
- ==Emotional Stability==
- ==Agreeableness==
- ==Openess to experience==
- ==Extroversion==

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what are the factors in the external environment?

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Economic, IT, labor market, law & regulation, labor union

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what is work motivation?

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psychological process that causes arousal, direction and voluntary actions that are goal-directed.

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What are all the types of motivation theories and explain.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy - physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, self esteem, self-actualization
- Alderfer’s ERG theoy - E= existence (basic needs to survive), R= relatedness (relationships), G= growth
- Expentancy theory = Effort - performance - reward. Expectancy= putting a lot of work to expect success. Instrumentality= more work =more valuables Valence = value placed on the outcome
- Goal-setting theory - best out of all the theory. Specific, challenging and employee accepted goals will lead to higher performance.
- Social- learning theory - Outcome expectation (performing a given behavior to a given outcome). Self-efficiency - people’s judgement of their capabilities to organize and execute action to obtain designed types of performance.
- Equity Theory - seeking balance in the workplace. People compare their inputs (effort, time) to outputs (rewards, regcognition) with others.
- Reinforcement theory- encourage a good behaviour than a bad one
- Behaviour modification - positive reinforcement, negative, punishment