People Flashcards

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Differentiation of units

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Each part of the organization has a specific role to play, with unique strengths and challenges and subcultures that must be managed

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Five disciplines of a Learning Organization

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Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Team Learning
Systems Thinking

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What is a learning organization?

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A place where groups seek out new knowledge and then apply change and project management planning to adopt new ways of doing things

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4
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Define Systems Thinking

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Building processes that take care of the entire organization, not just individual parts

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5
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Wage bands, payroll administration, and pay increase calculations are components of what total rewards function?

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Pay structure

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What kind of chart would be most useful for graphically representing progress on a project?

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Gantt chart

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What type of interview occurs when the questions are established ahead of time and asked of each applicant?

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Structured interview

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Performance Management

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The tools, activities, and processes that an organization uses to manage, maintain, and improve the job performance of employees

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Critical Path Analysis

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Breaking up a large project into smaller steps and identifying the estimated time to complete each task

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HR Business Partner (HRBP)

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HR professional who works directly with senior leadership to develop and direct an HR agenda that supports organizational goals

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Lagging indicator

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Measures past performance to gauge an organization’s progress toward strategic objectives

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Leading Indicator

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Metrics used as a predictive measure of future performance

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Mission statement

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Reflects the purpose to which organizational effort will be applied

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14
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Organizational values

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What the company believes in

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15
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Benchmarking

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Establishing a baseline from which to measure variables

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Comparison of the cost of taking action to the results

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Vision statement

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Description of where the company wants to be in the future

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Value statement

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Describes what the company believes in

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Strategy

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A plan of action for accomplishing an organization’s long-range goals to create value

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Strategic planning

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Process of setting goals and designing a path toward a competitive position

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Strategic management

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The actions that leaders take to move their organizations toward the goals set in strategic planning to create value

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Employer brand

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How the company communicates the standards and expectations an employee should have of the company

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Job description

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Written description of a job and its essential functions and requirements

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Job specifications

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The minimum qualifications necessary to perform a job, written to comply with local laws

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25
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Job analysis

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The process of breaking down the whole of a job into its individual and complementary parts

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26
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Task Inventory Analysis (definition)

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Job analysis method made up of a list of all tasks associated with a job, grouped by duties and rated by frequency, importance, and difficulty.

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27
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Task Inventory Analysis (benefit)

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Allows for prioritization of job requirements and specifications

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28
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Position analysis questionnaire (definition)

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Questionnaire that measures a range of job elements and relates them to human characteristics

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Position analysis questionnaire (benefit)

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Conducts a quantified analysis of a job to determine appropriate duties and responsibilities

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30
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Critical incident technique (definition)

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Using real-life situations as examples of good or bad performance to generate job descriptions and situational examples

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31
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Critical incident technique (benefit)

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Helps identify KSAs that may have been missed in a theoretical assessment of the job

32
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Sourcing

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Process by which an organization generates a pool of qualified job applicants

33
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Recruitment

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The process of encouraging candidates to apply for job openings

34
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Cost per hire (definition + formula)

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Measure or the financial expenses associated with filling open positions
(Internal + external costs) / (# of hires)

35
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Time to fill

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Time between the day a job was posted to the day of a candidate’s acceptance

36
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Structured interview

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Pre-written questions asked to all candidates

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Unstructured interview

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Free-flowing questions, conversational and guided by the candidate’s responses

38
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Behavior-based interview

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Focused on how the candidate previously handled situations (real work experiences)

39
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Panel interview

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Structured questions are divided amongst a group of interviewers, each asking questions on topics most relevant to them/their role

40
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Peer (team) interview

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Group interview including supervisors, subordinates, and peers

41
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Stress interview

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Role playing emotionally chaotic scenarios

42
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Contingent job offer

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Job offer that is conditional upon additional requirements being met

43
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Orientation

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First few days of a new hire’s job in which the employee becomes familiar with their department, coworkers, and roles

44
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Employee engagement

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The degree to which and employee feels job satisfaction and commitment to their employer and actively contributes to the achievement of organizational results

45
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Performance management

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The process of maintaining or improving employee job performance

46
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Asynchronous learning

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Learning that does not require the student and the teacher to be together at the same time (self-paced learning)

47
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Blended learning

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Combination of instructor led, self directed, and/or on the job training

48
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Cross-functional skills

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Capabilities that facilitate performance in the current role and across jobs

49
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Explicit knowledge

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Formal and documented information like policies or procedures

50
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Synchronous learning

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Live classroom setting (either in person or online) with instructor and students

51
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Tacit knowledge

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Information gained through experience, informal

52
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Compensation philosophy

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Formal statement documenting the company’s position about employee compensation

53
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Distributive justice

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Equitable distribution of benefits and burdens

54
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Benefits

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payments or services provided to employees to cover retirement, health care, sick pay, life insurance, and PTO

55
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Total compensation statements

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The total value of the base pay, incentives, and benefits package (salary, paid leave, retirement, etc)

56
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Job evaluation

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Determines the value and price of a job by comparing with internal and external markets.

57
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Pay compression

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Occurs when the spread between what the incumbent employee earns and what a new hire for the same position earns is small

58
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Pay structure

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Framework that describes the job categories and pay ranges for all positions within the organization

59
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4 Strategic Planning Steps

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Formulation
Goal setting
Implementation
Evaluation

60
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What is the purpose of Human Resource Capital Management Planning?

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To identify what skill sets are needed for the company to successfully execute the company’s strategy

61
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SWOT audit

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Scanning tool used to assess internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats

62
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Lean and Six Sigma

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Quality management tool used to eliminate waste and improve efficiency

63
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6 phases of the negotiation process

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Preparation
Relationship building
Information exchange
Persuasion
Concessions
Agreement

64
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Green-circled employees

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Employees who are paid below the pay range minimum

65
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Red-circled employees

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Employees who are paid above the pay range maximum

66
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Procedural justice

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The perceived fairness in the process by which company decisions are made

67
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Severance agreement

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Risk management tool in which the employer pays the employee a flat amount in exchange for agreeing not to sue

68
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Wage band

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Defines the minimum and maximum pay rate for each position within the organization

69
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What occurs during the A in ADDIE?

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Analysis - conducting a needs analysis

70
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What occurs during the first D in ADDIE?

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Design - establish measurable training objectives and how to deliver the intervention

71
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What occurs during the second D in ADDIE?

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Development - content building + learning activities developed

72
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What occurs during the I in ADDIE?

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Implementation - instructor selection, pilot testing, full implementation

73
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What occurs during the E in ADDIE?

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Evaluation - comparing results to objectives

74
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Personal mastery

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Discipline focused on helping individuals clarify and deepen their personal vision for themselves

75
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Employee attitude surveys

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Address management, organizational, compensation, and benefits issues

76
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Employee opinion surveys

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Addresses specific issues such as workplace procedures and policies

77
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Employee engagement survey

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Focus on matters that affect employee satisfaction