Module 2.1A: Talent Planning & Acquisition Overview

Question 1

What is the role of Talent Planning & Acquisition?

Answer 1

1. ensure that their employer can compete with similar companies in the marketplace, by hiring human capital and helping to make sure workers are motivated and productive.
2. assess the available talent pool and determine which strategies to pursue when hiring, managing, and developing talent.
3. effectively recruit, select, and on-board new employees
4. remain adaptable to changing conditions in the marketplace, in the labor landscape, in technology, and at the company.
5. have a strong understanding of labor laws

Question 2

What is Workforce Planning?

Answer 2

A continual process of identifying and analyzing the characteristics of workforce needed by an organization to achieve its strategic objectives; process includes analyzing and forecasting workforce supply and demand and designing targeted talent management interventions.

Question 3

What is Job Design?

Answer 3

The process following job analysis which includes outlining tasks, duties, and responsibilities that encompass a job as well as determining the amount of authority a worker has, providing proper tools (software), establishing safe working conditions, and placing the job in the proper work group or team; steps of this process include job simplication, job rotation, job enrichment, and job enlargement.

Question 4

What is Job Enlargement?

Answer 4

Additional duties and responsibilities are appealing to workers who want additional challenges.

Question 5

What is Job Enrichment?

Answer 5

Providing more responsibility and variety by giving an employee more control over planning and management can be motivating.

Question 6

What is Job Rotation?

Answer 6

Moving a worker from job to job improves their skills and makes them more versatile

Question 7

What is Job Sharing?

Answer 7

The responsibilities, duties, tasks of one full-time worker are split between 2 part-time workers in this scenario.

Question 8

What is Work Scheduling?

Answer 8

Providing flexibility regarding when and where an employee does their work can broaden the available talent pool

Question 9

What is a Job Analysis?

Answer 9

Analysis of information about the content and the human requirements of jobs, as well as the conditions and context in which jobs are performed.

Question 10

With regard to job analysis, it is important to keep in mind that evaluations must be conducted primarily on the:

Answer 10

work itself

Question 11

In designing and implementing a job evaluation system, the first step is to:

Answer 11

identify the work content of each job