Managing Human Capital Flashcards

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Strategic Risk

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Affect business strategy

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Operations Risk

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Impact orgs ability to execute business strategy

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Financial Risk

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Affects org workforce costs and productivity

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Compliance Risk

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Government regs (legal - not necessarily ethical)

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Virtue Standard

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Consistent with certain ideal virtues including civility, compassion and benevolence

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Fairness Standard

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Treats all people equally or at least fairly

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Utilitarian Standard

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Good or evil

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Rights Standard

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Protects the moral rights of everyone involved

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Common Good Standard

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Shows respect and compassion for everyone

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Entrepreneurial Culture

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Emphasizes creativity, innovation and risk taking

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Beureaucratic Culture

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emphasizes formal structures and the correct implementation of organization procedures, norms and rules. Commonly asociated with consistency and high ethical standards

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Consensual Culture

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emphasizes loyalty and tradition and encourages employees to stay with the organization for a long time

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Competitive Culture

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emphasizes competitive advantage and market superiority

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National Labor Relations Act of 1935

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Right to unionizeFai

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Fair Labor Standardds Act (FLSA) of 1938

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Minimum wage and overtime rules

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Equal Pay Act of 1963

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Prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of sex

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin

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Age Discrimination in Employment Ace (ADEA) of 1967

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Potects people over 40

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Rehabilitation Act of 1973

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Prohibits discrimination against disability

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Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA)

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Prohibits discrimination and requires affirmative action for disabled and other categories of veterans

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Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978

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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditionsCo

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Consolidate Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1986

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At least 4 employees must verify employment eligibility

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Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988

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Prohibits discrimination of osmeone having a disability; fair treatment and reasonable accomodation

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The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994

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Military are entitled to return to civilian employment

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Family Medical Leave Act of 1993

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Requires leave and job-return; must have 50 employees

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Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

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Prohibits discrimination based on resutls of genetic testing

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Quid Pro Quo

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unwanted verbal or physical conduct as a condition of employment

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Hostile Environment

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unwanted verbal or physical conduct that creates a bad environment

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Stereotyping

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believing that everyone in a particular group shares certain characteristics or abilities or will behave in the same way

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Prejudice

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outright bigotry

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Ignorance

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being unaware of all requirements of employment law

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Perception of loss

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Believing one will “lose out” on future employment opportunities by hiring more diverse people

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Policy

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guiding principle used to set direction

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Procedure

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way of accomplishing something

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Sourcing

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Identifying qualified individuals in a labor market; uses analytical skills to generate leads

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Recruiting

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Affect number or type of people willing to apply for and accept jobs; identified by sourcing

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Person-organization fit

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fit between individual’s values, attitudes and personality and the organization’s values, norms and culture

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Person-group fit

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the match between the person and his or her workgroup and supervisor

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Person-job fit

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fit between a person’s abilities and the job’s demands and the fit between a person’s needs and motivations and the job’s attributes and rewards

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Case Interview Question

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business situation, challenge or problems and asked to present a solution

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Situation Interview Question

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hypothetical situation; not about past behavior

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Behavioral Interviewe Question

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Gain insight from past behavior

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Procedural Fairness

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Perceived fairness of the policies and procedures used to determine outcomes

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Distributive Fairness

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Fairness in the outcomes

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Interaction Fairness

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Fairness of interpersonal treatment

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Needs assessment in training development

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1st Step: creates foundation for effective training

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Learning objectives in training development

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Identify desired learning outcomes

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Design in training development

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develop content, learning methods, materials and setting and instructors trained

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Implementation in training development

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training program implemented

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Evaluation in training development

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collecting information to make decisions around adopting or improving a set of activities

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Kirkpatrick - Reaction

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How participatns felt; feedback forms and surveys

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Kirkpatrick - Learning

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Change in participants’ knowledge, skills, behiavior or attitude; pre and post test or assessments; observation, simulation, interviews

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Kirkpatrick - Behavior

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Extent to which what is learned in training is used; long-term observation; sustainability of behaviors

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Kirkpatrick - Results

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business impact; performance appraisal & ROI analysis

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Personal Standard Bias

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What you beleive should be the standard

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Contract effect bias

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determination is made by comparing the target employee with someone else

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First Impression Bias

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Initial judgements influrence later assessments

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Recency Effect Bias

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recent events are given a disproportionately large influence on the rating

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High potential error bias

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When potential is confused with performance

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Halo effect bias

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When one positive factor influences other areas of performance

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Horns effect bias

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When one negative factor influences other areas of performance

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Similar to me effect bias

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when high ratings are given to someone perceived as similar to the rater

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Leniency Error Bias

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high rating given to all employees regardless of performance

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Central Tendancy Bias

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Rating all employees in the middle of the scale

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Stereotyping bias

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Everyone in a group shares certain characteristics or will behave in the same way

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Opportunity bias

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Ignoring of factors beyond the employee’s control that influence their performance

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NLRA of 1935: Wagner Act

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Right of nonmanagerial employees to join unions nad bargain colelctively

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Railway Labor Act

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For airlines and railroads; keeps airlines and railroads moving

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NLRA of 1947: Taft-Hartley Act: Extended Wagner Act

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Prohibited secondary boycotts; prohibited union shops and closed shopes that forced union membership; enabled employees to choose not to join a union

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Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959: Landrum-Griffin Act

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Outlined bill of rights for union members and established procedure of elections etc

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Closed Union Shop

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Employs only poeple who are already union members (Taft-Hartley Labor act made illeggal)A

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Agency Union Shop

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Requires nonunion workers to pay a fee to the union

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Open Union Shop

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Does not discriminate based on union membership

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Strike

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Members refuse to work

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Boycott

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Members don’t buy firm’s products

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Lockout

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Management keeps employees away and uses management staff or replacements instead

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Drivers of Attraction

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Competitve base pay, job security, career advancement opportunities

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Drivers of Retention

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base pay/salary. career advancement, trust in senior leadership

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Drivers of Engagement

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Intereste in employee well-being, understanding org goals and objectives, reasonable workload and healthy work/life balance

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Affective Commitment

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Employees stay because they want to

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Normative Commitment

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Employees stay becuase they feel they should

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Continuance Commitment

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Employees stay because they feel they have to