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29 Cards in this Set
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The percentage of the population working or seeking work.
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Labor force participation rate
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Effort directed toward accomplishing results.
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Work
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Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee.
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Job
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Study of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves through an organization.
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Workflow analysis
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Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.
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Job design
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Taking an existing job and changing it to improve it.
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Job redesign
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Someone who is not an employee, but a temporary or part-time worker for a specific period of time and type of work.
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Contingent worker
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Matching characteristics of people with characteristics of jobs.
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Person-job fit
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Broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks to be performed.
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Job enlargement
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Increasing the depth of a job by adding responsibilities for planning, organizing, controlling, or evaluating the job.
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Job enrichment
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Process of shifting a person from job to job.
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Job rotation
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Extent to which the work requires several activities for successful completion.
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Skill variety
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Extent to which the job includes a "whole" identifiable unit of work that is carried out from start to finish and that results in a visible outcome.
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Task identity
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Impact the job has on other people.
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Task significance
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Extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling.
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Autonomy
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The amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed.
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Feedback
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Organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services.
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Special-purpose team
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Organizational team composed of individuals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished.
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Self-directed team
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Organizational team includes individuals who are separated geographically but who are linked by communications technology.
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Virtual team
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A workweek in which a full week's work is accomplished in fewer than five 8-hour days.
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Compressed workweek
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Scheduling arrangement in which two employees perform the work of one full-time job.
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Job sharing
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Employer-sponsored programs designed to help employees balance work and personal life.
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Work-life balance
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Systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs.
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Job analysis
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Distinct, identifiable work activity composed of motions.
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Task
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Work segment composed of several tasks that are performed by an individual.
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Duty
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Obligations to perform certain tasks and duties.
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Responsibilities
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Individual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by individuals or teams.
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Competencies
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Duties that are part of a job but are incidental or ancillary to the purpose and nature of the job.
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Marginal job functions
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Indicators of what the job accomplishes and how performance is measured in key areas of the job description.
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Performance standards
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