HRM 3 + 4 Flashcards
1
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- A justifiable reason for discrimination based on business reasons of safety or effectiveness
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- BFOQ Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (or BFOR)
2
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- Women, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and people with disabilities who have been disadvantaged in employment
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- Designated Group
3
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- The optimization of an organization’s multicultural workforce to reach business objectives
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- Diversity Management
4
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- The employment of individuals in a fair and nonbiased manner
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- Employment Equity
5
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- Attempt by employers to adjust the working conditions or schedules of employees with disabilities or religious preferences
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- Reasonable Accommodation
6
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- Term applied to designated groups that are not utilized or represented in the employer’s workforce proportional to their numbers in the labour market
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- Underutilization
7
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- The exclusion of members of certain groups through the application of employment policies or practices based on criteria that are not job-related
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- Systemic Discrimination
8
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- A group of related activities and duties
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- Job
9
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- The process of obtaining information about jobs by determining the duties, tasks, or activities of jobs
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- Job Analysis
10
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- A statement of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job to be performed
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- Job Description
11
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- An outgrowth of job analysis that improves jobs through technological and human considerations to enhance organization efficiency and employee job satisfaction
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- Job Design
12
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- Enhancing a job by adding more meaningful tasks and duties to make the work more rewarding or satisfying
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- Job Enrichment
13
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- A group of individual jobs with similar characteristics
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- Job Family
14
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- The arrangement whereby two part-time employees perform a job that otherwise would be held by one full-time employee
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- Job Sharing
15
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- A statement of the needed knowledge, skills, and abilities of the person who is to perform the job
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- Job Specification
