**Important** Flashcards

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Andragogy

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the method and practice of teaching adult learners.

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Strategy

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the formulation of plans and actions for gaining competitive advantage.

Decisions as to how the organization plans to achieve it’s mutually agreed upon goals and objectives (and leverage its competitive advantage).

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Strategic Plan

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should describe the organization or departments direction, objectives, performance targets, and actions or tactics to achive documented objectives.

Stragic plans could be created for organizations, deparments, or teams.

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Strategic Human Capital Management

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  • Aligns with the overall strategic direction of the organization
  • Forward-thinking or proactive decisions focused on long-term goals
  • Leverages your competitive advantage
  • Practices are grounded in data
  • Focus on customer wants, needs, and perceptions

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The following are examples of: ____________ _____________ ____________ Management

  • Development of a strategy and goals.
  • Selection of metrics to monitor progress.
  • Fomrulating an employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Aligning the performance management system with organizational goals.
  • Managing employee experience
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Strategic Human Capital Management

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Human Capital Management

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  • Day-to-day, reactive decisions focused on what needs to be done now
  • Operations needed to support the organization’s general function
  • Focus is on organization wants and needs (efficiency for efficiencies sake)

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The following are examples of__________ ____________ Capital Management

  • Benefits administration
  • Managing internal employee conflicts
  • Enforcing workplace policies
  • Completing background checks or ensuring I-9s are complete
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Transactional Human Capital Management

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Reactive

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Action occurs AFTER an incident, error, or issue.

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Proactive

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Action and planning occurs BEFORE an incident, error, or issue.

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KSAs

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Knowledge: Theoretical understanding
Skills: Developed capacities
Abilities: Innate traits or attributes

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Workers must be correctly designated as independent contractors, exempt, nonexempt

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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Pohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

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Prohibits discrmination based on pregnancy

Areas of concern: marital status, number of children

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Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)

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PDA

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Pregnancy Discrimination Act

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Protects employees and job applicants who are at least 40 years old from age discrimination

Areas of Concern: Birth Date

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Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)

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ADEA

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Age Discrimination in Employment Act

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Areas of concern: Health, Physical defect

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ADA Amendments Act / Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

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GINA

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ADA Amendment Act / Genetic Information Nondiscrimintion Act

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Funneling

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a hiring process that quickly sorts through applicants using low-cost, low effort methods in the preliminary stages to help preserve resources for use in screening and hiring the most promising candidates for a position.

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4/5ths Rule

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1) Selection Rate (calculate the % selected for each group)

2) Identify Largest (which group has the highest selection rate)

3) Impact Ratio (selection rate of remaining groups) / (highest selection rate)

4) Adverse Impact? (are any impact ratios less than 4/5 (80%)? If yes - evidence of adverse impact)

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21
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Types of Cognitive Bias

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1) Primacy Effect
2) Recency Effect
3) Halo Effect
4) Horn Effect
5) Centrality Bias
6) Leniency/Strictness Bias
7) Similar-to-me Bias
8) Confirmation Bias

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22
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Overall impression based on past behavior or outcomes.

Disregard recent information (First impressions error)

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Primacy Effect

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23
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Overall impression based on most recent behavior or outcomes.

Disregard past information.

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Recency Effect

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24
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Allowing a positive trait to overshadow all other qualities.

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Halo Effect

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25
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Allowing a negative trait to overshadow all other qualities.

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Horn Effect

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26
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Tendency to rate most items in the middle of the scale regardless of differences in performance.

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Centrality Bias

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27
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Tendency to rate items at the top or bottom of the scale regardless of differences in performance.

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Leniency/Stricness Bias

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28
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Tendency to favorably judge people who are preceived to be like you.

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Similar-to-me Bias

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29
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Focusing on information that supports what you already believe.

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Confirmation Bias

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30
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  • Focuses on the role or job task
  • Operational, teaches people how to be competent at their jobs
  • Addresses an immediate performance challenge
  • Focus is acquisition of knowledge or skills needed in the short-term

Short Term

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Training

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  • Focuses on the person
  • Strategic, acquiring transferrable skills and abilities
  • Learning is often conceptual and requires effort to apply the content
  • Focus is on the long-term growth, often in preparation for the next step or level of responsibility.

More strategic – developing person - more conceptual - long term growth

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Professional Development

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32
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Adding new knowledge and skills is ________ development

  • Competence
  • Increase techncial competencies and content knowledge
  • What you know
  • Skills training
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Horizontal Development

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33
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Ability to think in more complex, systemic, and interdependent ways is ________ development.

  • Capacity
  • Increase ability to handle complexity and uncertainty
  • How you think
  • Transformational learning experiences
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Vertical Development

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34
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Conditions for Vertical Development

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1) Heat Experiences -
The what - Intitiates

2) Colliding Perspectives -
The Who - enables

3) Elevated Sensemaking -
The How - integrates

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35
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Job Evaluation Types

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1) Job Ranking
2) Point Factoring
3) Job Classification

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35
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Instructional Design Process: ADDIE Approach

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A - Analyze (identify the problem & learning requirements)
D - Design (draft a content outline)
D - Develop (create content)
I - Implement (present learning to intended audience)
E - Evaluate (assessif desired outcomes were achieved)

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36
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________ orders job from the lowest to highest based on their preceived overall value to the organization.

This method is the simplest to implement.

It is a qualitative method that compares relative value of the whole job (rather than parts of the job)

  • Simple to implement
  • Inexpensive
  • Easy for employees to understand
  • Basis of comparison undefined
  • Relies on subjetive judgments
  • Doesn’t measure differences between jobs
  • More complex as number of jobs increases
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Job Ranking

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37
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A quantitative job evaluation methodology that breaks jobs into compensable factors to evaluate the relative worth of positions.

  • Skill (experience, ability, education, and training required to perform a job)
  • Responsibilities (degree of accountability required in performing a job)
  • Effort (amount of physical or mental exertion needed to perform a job)
  • Working Conditions (intensity and frequency of environmental elements and frequency and severtity of physical hazards)
  • Easy to maintain
  • Makes criteria for evaluating jobs explicit
  • Able to measure the difference between jobs
  • Legally defensible
  • Difficult and time consuming to implement
  • Difficult for employees to undertand
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Point Factoring

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38
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________ groups jobs into a predetermined set of grades or classes.

  • Easy for employees to undertand
  • Easy to place new jobs into a grade/class
  • Placing jobs in a grade/class involves subjective judgment
  • Evaluates the job as a whole. Jobs can overlap with more tahn one grade/class
  • Doesn’t measure differences between jobs
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Job Classification

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39
Q

They explain:
* What drives us
* Describe sytems of needs that motivate people’s actions

Implications for Total Rewards & Work-life Integration
* A variety of rewards/options are necessary to satisfy different types of needs.

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Content Theories

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40
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They explain:
* How our processing and interpretation of information drives us
* Explain how and why our motivations affect our behaviors. Assumes people are making decisions, not just acting on basic need.

Implications for Total Rewards & Work-life Integration
* Employees perceive and respond to rewards differently. One-size does not fit all.

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Process & Cognitive Theories

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41
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Includes those that do not increase employee satisfaction, but the absence of them can lead to dissatisfaction.
* Salary
* Working conditions
* Interpersonal relationships

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Hygiene Factors

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42
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those offerings that lead to employee satisfaction
* Recgonition
* Achievement
* Responsibility
* Advancement

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Motivation Factors

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