Test #3 Flashcards

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Career Management

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enabling employees to better understand and dvp their career skills and interests and to use these skills and interests more effectively

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What is the managers role?

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provide timely and objective performance feedback, and support and participate in career dvp discussions with employee.

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What is the employees role 5 TCATS

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to accept responsibility for their own career; asses interests and skills;
seek out career info resources;
take steps to ensure they happy and fulfilled career

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What is a portfolio career

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a career built around using ones skills to create a livelihood based on multiple income sources

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What are the 3 career Management methods?

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-career planning workshop
-lifelong learning accounts
-career coaches

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Management methods: career planing wokrshop (3)

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planned learning event in which employees are expected to be actively involved
-completing career planing exercises
-participating in skills practice sessions

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Management methods: Life long learning accounts

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an employee-owned educational savings account that helps pay for education and training expense

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Management Methods: Career Coach

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help employees create 5 year plans showing where their careers in the firm may lead

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What is coaching: SA (3)

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educating instructing and training subordinates

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4 steps in coaching: SA

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Preperation
planning
active coaching
follow-up

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Preparation: SA

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understainign the problem, employee and his skills
-form a hypo about what the prob is

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Planning; SA

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solution.
reacting agreement on the problem and on what to change

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Active coaching; SA

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here you are the teacher. Offer ideas and advice in a way they can hear you

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Follow-up:SA

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reobserve the persons progress periodically

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What is Mentoring

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advising, counseling, and guiding

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The role of Protege

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play an active role in their own development by identifying their own needs, making those needs specific, soliciting mentor assistance,

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Career Oriented Appraisals

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the supervisor and employee jointly merge the Latter’s past performance, career preferences, and dvp needs into a formal career plan

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o Retention strategies to reduce voluntary turnover: SA

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turnover often starts with poor selection decisions, inadequate training. Can’t formulate a retention strategy w/o taking into consideration all HR practices

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Types of Turnover

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Voluntary
involunrary

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Job Withdrawal

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actions intended to place physical or psycho distance btw employees and their work envios

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Horizontal Promotion

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instead of managing promote to another dpt like HR to dvp skills

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Transfer

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reassignment to similar positions in other parts of the firm (no change ins salary)

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o Terminate at will

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can be fired by employer/employee for any reason

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o Dismissal

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involuntary termination of employees employement with the firm

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What are the 4 grounds for dismissal
unsatisfactory performace miscodnuct lack of qualifications for the job changed requieremtns of the job
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Wrongful Discharge
employees dismissal does not comply with the law
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layoff
employees told no worker them but management will call when there is
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plant closing lsw
requieres employers of 100 more employees to give 60 days notice before closing a facility
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Downsizing
process of reducing number of peeps employed by from
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exit process
exit interview(interwiew person to See what they think about the company) checklist (return all keys, company equip,)
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severance pay
one time payment to employees being terminated
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Employee Comp
all form of pay/reqards going to employees
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Direct financial payments
pay in form of wages, salaries incentives commissions bonuses
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indirect financial payments
pay. in form of financial benifits (insurance)
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Total rewards
encompasses the traditional pay incentives and benefits but also things like challenging jobs
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Aligment with Strategy
creating total pay package that produces employee beh firm needs to support and achieve its strategy
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Internal equity
how fair a jobs pay rate is when compared to other jobs within the same company
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External equity
how Jobs pay rate in one company compares to jobs pay rate in other companies
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o Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
unlawful for employers to discriminate against any individual with respect to hiring cuz of race, sex, national origin
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o Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA)
act provides for minimum wages, max hours, OT pay, child labor protection
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o Equal Pay Act
requiere cual pay for women doing same work as men
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o Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA, covers retirement
gvmnt protection of pensions for all employees with company pension plans. Regulates vesting rights (employees who leave before retirement)
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o Affordable Care Act
increase health insurance reduce the costs of healthcare overal
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o National Labor Relations Act
grants employees the right to form or join unions; engage in protected, concerted activities to address or improve working conditions; or refrain from engaging in these activities.
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Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited period
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Job evaluation
comparison done to determine the worth of one job relative to another
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Job evalution methods (3)
-ranking -job classicaficatiohn -point method
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ranking
raking each job relative to all other jobs usually based on overall difficulty
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Job Class
method for categorizing jobs into groups
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Prepping for job evaluation (3
identifying need for program -getting coop -choosing an evaluation committee
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Grafe def
written descriptions of level of responsibly required by jobs in each grade
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* Competency Based Pay
company pays for employees skills rater than job title they hold
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Broadbadning: SA
consolidating salary grades and ranges into wide levels each containing wide range of jobs and salary levels
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Broadbanding adv; SA
injects greater flexibility into employee assignments
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total rewards SA
encompasses not only comp and benefits but also personal and proffesioanl growing opp
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total rewards and employee engagementSA
has hight impact on job performance and engagement
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o Piecework plans
pay based on the number of items by each individual worker in unit of time.
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merit pay
salary increase awarded to an employee based on their performance
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Wokers Comp (SA)
Provdides income and medical benefits to work related accident victims regardless of fault
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how to control cost
screen out accident prone workers reduce accident causing conditions. institute healthy safety programs
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Why control control cost
cost of employers premium reflect the amount claimed.