SHRM Chapters 6-10 Flashcards
What are the 5 internal factors of talent acquisition?
- Financial Restrictions
- Employee Unions
- Levels of production
- Increases or decreases in sales
- Plans for global expansion
What are the 6 external factors of talent acquisition?
- Rapid Technological advances
- Amendments in legislation
- Unemployment rates
- A change in the population
- A change in the distribution of the population
- Competition
What 6 elements should you consider while creating a recruitment strategy?
- Make use of a staffing plan
- Use questionnaires to confirm that the job analysis is correct
- Write the job description and requirements
- Establish a bidding system for recruiting and evaluating internal candidates for possible promotions
- Determine the most effective recruitment strategy
- Create a recruitment strategy
What is job analysis?
A formal system for determining what tasks people undertake at work
-Ensures that a job and employee are a good fit and determines how employee performance is measured
What is Task-based analysis?
Focuses on job obligations:
- Provide performance appraisals for employees
- Prepare reports
- Respond to incoming phone calls
- Assist customers with product questions
- cold-call three customers a day
What is Competency-based analysis?
Concentrates on precise skills and understanding a person must have to execute a job
- Able to utilize data analysis tools
- Able to work with teams
- Adaptable
- Innovative
What are 5 common types of tests?
- Cognitive ability
- Personality
- Physical ability
- Job knowledge
- Work samples
Reasons why 90% of employees leave a company
- Problems with the job they are doing
- Problems with the boss
- Incompatibility with the company’s culture
- Unhealthy working conditions
What are external factors or variables?
Things over which a company has no direct influence. Ex:
- Offshoring/globalization
- The workforce’s diversity
- Downsizing and layoffs
What are typical reasons employees quit organizations?
- Mismatch between the task and their abilities
- A lack of development
- Internal pay equity
- Management
- Workload
What do employees require to feel satisfied at work?
- A wide range of skills ad activities as part of the job
- Task identify or the ability to accomplish a single task from start to finish
- Task importance or the extent to which the task affects others, both internally and externally
- Autonomy, refers to the ability to make decisions at work
- Relevant instructions about performance or feedback
What do employees require to feel satisfied at work?
- A wide range of skills ad activities as part of the job
- Task identify or the ability to accomplish a single task from start to finish
- Task importance or the extent to which the task affects others, both internally and externally
- Autonomy, refers to the ability to make decisions at work
- Relevant instructions about performance or feedback
What is employment enlargement?
Adding extra challenges or duties to an existing job
What are the 3 project management approaches?
- Agile
- Lean
- Six Sigma
What is Agile project management?
Procedure in which self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers work together to develop requests and solutions
