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Prelims Flashcards

1
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HR is planned based on the current life cycle of the company

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Organizational Life Cycle Theory

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Focuses on the leader of the org.

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Strategic Contingency Theory

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3
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What are the stages of a company?

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  1. Birth of the org.
  2. Growth & Development
  3. Maturity (peak)
  4. Decline
  5. Death (bankruptcy)
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4
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All units within the organization are essential. Relies on synergy, interrelations and interdependence between subsystems for success.

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General Systems Theory

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5
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Costs will arise when you get someone else to do something. Save as much as money as possible. Minimize costs of exchanging resources.

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Transaction cost theory

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6
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Process of assessment of the current manpower

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Human Resource Planning

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7
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Basis for recruitment, training and development of staff. Detailed picture of the job.

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Job Analysis

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8
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Forms the basis of wage and salary determination.

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Job Evaluation

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Identifies the requirement of personnel and explores resources. Right person is selected and put to work.

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Recruitment and Selection

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10
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Evaluating performance of employees

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Performance Appraisal

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11
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Makes employees excel in their present post as well as make them competent for future higher job responsibilities.

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Training & Development

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12
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Determines the pay structure for employees on the basis of their qualification, efficiency, experience and nature of job

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Employee compensation

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13
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Encouragement of employees through rewards

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Employee motivation

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14
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Providing canteen facilities and rest rooms etc

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Employee welfare

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15
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Addressing grievances of employees

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Industrial relation

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16
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Ensures healthy intra and inter unit relationship

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Organizational development

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17
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Assuring alignment of management

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Career development

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18
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Defines tasks, authority, systems of a job

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Job design

19
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Ensures linkages between individual and organizational goals

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Performance Management systems

20
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Provides problem solving or counselling to individual employees

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Employee assistance

21
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Aims to create an environment of industrial peace and harmony

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Labor relations

22
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Ensures a reliable and full proof HR information base

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HR research and Information Systems and Audit

23
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Upward mobility of personnel via promotions / move up the ladder of the org.

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Succession planning

24
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Implementing policies and procedures that make the work more rewarding for the employee

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Quality of working life

25
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Improving performance of managers by giving them stimulating opportunities for growth and development

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Personnel welfare

26
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Planning of how you achieve goals inside a company through steps.

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Career path

27
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Analysis of a company with other companies and apply their processes, identify the best solutions and apply the formula.

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Benchmarking

28
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What are the HR roles?

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  1. Recruitment and Employment
  2. Interviewing, testing, recruitment, and temporary employment
  3. Labor coordination
  4. Training and Development
  5. Wage and Salary Management
  6. Benefits administration
  7. Employee service and recreations
  8. Community relations
  9. Record management
  10. Health & Safety
29
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Plans, organizes, directs, controls and coordinates the activities of the department

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Supervisor

30
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Conducts or directs certain personnel activities as provided in the policies and programs entrusted to the department

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Administrative official

31
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Serves as counselor, guide, and confidante to management supervisor and employees

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Adviser

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Brings into action all activities, regulates and combines diverse efforts into harmonious whole and gets together and harmonizes the work of various personnel in the department and related function in other departments

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Coordinator

33
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Attends negotiations with unions in advisory capacity. Understanding nature, significance and methods of collective bargaining.

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Negotiator

34
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Involved in the management of employee development programs of the organization

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Educator

35
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Helps employees obtain facilities, government agencies like SSS, Mesicare, Philhealtj etc.

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Provider of services

36
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HR manager’s knowledge and training in human relations and behavioral sciences

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Employee counselor

37
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CSR ( Corporate Social Responsibility )

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Promoter of Community Relations

38
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Assisting with interviews, scoring test results

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Entry level (PA)

39
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Manpower planning, interpreting results

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Supervisor Level

40
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a) leadership & conceptual ideas visioning
b) analysis of the facts for decision making
c) compliance administration and control
d) interpersonal teamwork

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Managerial level

41
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Stages of career path

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  1. Entry Level (PA)
  2. Supervisor Level
  3. Managerial Level
42
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4 main theories of HR

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  1. Organizational Life Cycle Theory
  2. Strategic Contingency Theory
  3. General Systems Theory
  4. Transaction cost theory
43
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Roles of Personnel or HR Manager

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  1. Supervisor
  2. Administrative official
  3. Adviser
  4. Coordinator
  5. Negotiator
  6. Educator
  7. Provider of services
  8. Employee counselor
  9. Promoter of Community Relations
44
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Scopes of HR

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  1. HRP
  2. Job Analysis
  3. Job Evaluation
  4. Recruitment & Selection
  5. Performance Appraisal
  6. Training & Development
  7. Employee compensation
  8. Employee Motivation
  9. Employee welfare
  10. Industrial relation
  11. Organizational development
  12. Career development
  13. Job design
  14. Performance Management Systems
  15. Employee assistance
  16. Labor relations
  17. HR Research and Information Systems and Audit
  18. Succession planning
  19. Quality of working life
  20. Personnel welfare

Human Resource Management (2 decks)

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