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____________ Focuses on analyzing existing jobs to gather information for other human resource management practices, whereas _____________ focuses on redesigning existing jobs to make them more efficient or more motivating for jobholders.
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Job analysis, Job design
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Which of the following refers to the process of analyzing the tasks necessary for production of a product or service prior to allocating and assigning the tasks to a particular job category or person?
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Work Flow design
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If work is organized around teams, then:
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Team bonuses need to play a major role in terms of defining rewards
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When decision-making authority resides at the top of the organizational chart as opposed to being distributed throughout lower levels, an organization is:
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Centralized
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_________ refers to the degree to which work unites are grouped based on functional similarity or similarity of flow:
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Departmentalization
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Identifying the most qualified applicants for employment refers to:
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Selection
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Which of the following refers to a list of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that a job entails?
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Job Description
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Which of the following refers to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that an individual must have to perform the job?
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Job Specifications
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Job descriptions generally contain all but one of the following components. Name the exception.
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a. Job title
b. Essential duties c. Nonessential functions d. Pay level** |
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O*NET:
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Uses of common language that generalizes across jobs to describe the abilities, work styles, work activities, and work content required for various occupations.
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Which of the following approaches to job design focuses on efficiency as the major outcomes of interest?
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Mechanistic Approach
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Which of the following approaches to job design has its roots in the organizational psychology and management literatures?
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Motivational Approach
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Within the Job Characteristics Model, the degree to which the job allows an individual to make decisions about the way the work is carried out is called:
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Autonomy
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The perceptual-motor approach to job design focuses on
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Human Mental capabilities and limitations
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The first step in the human resource planning process is:
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Forecasting labor supply and demand
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A "leading Indicator" is:
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An objective measure that accurately predicts future labor demand
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The goals that are set in the human resource planning process should come directly from:
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The analysis of supply and demand
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Which of the following options for reducing an expected labor surplus has the benefit of being a relative solution, but the disadvantage of being high in human suffering?
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Downsizing
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Your company’s primary concerns is to reduce an expected labor surplus fast; its secondary concern is to minimize human suffering. The option that would best address the company’s concerns (in the priority indicated) are:
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Transfers and work sharing
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______ forecast and monitor the proportion of various protected group members, such as women and minorities, that are in carious job categories and career tracks.
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Affirmative action plans
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Requires that government contractors maintain affirmative action programs.
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Executive Order 11246
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Policies that state their either party in the employment relationship can terminate that relationship at any time regardless of cause are called.
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Employment at will policies
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A policy that lays out the steps an employee can take to appeal a termination decision is called a:
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Due Process Policy
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The most effective source for recruiters is
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The web
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The recruiting source that is likely to be least costly per recruit hired is
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An employee referral
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