Managing Human Resources Flashcards
What’s the primary environmental force that influences HR?
Legal Environment
What are the three tasks associated to the first phase of HRM?
Employment planning, recruting and/or downsizing, selection.
Process by which managers ensure that they have the right number and kinds of people in the right places at the right times.
Employeement planning
Written statement of what a jobholder does, how it’s done and why.
Job Description
The minimum qualifications that an incumbent must possess to preform a given job successfully.
Job Specification
Name the recruting sources you know.
Internet, employee referrals, company’s website, college recruting and professional recruting organizations.
Name the downsizing options you know.
Firing, layoffs, attrition, transfers, reduced workweeks, early retirements and job sharing.
How can a manager turn an interview in an effective interview?
Prepare a set of questions, review the applicant’s résumé, review the job description and the job specification and write the evaluation of the the applicant as soons as the applicant leaves.
Why should managers always use the best techniques, like tests, work samplings and specific questions, while recruting employees?
To reduce the number of reject and accept errors.
Why is it negative to have excessively inflated information about your company?
New hires are prone to become desillusioned and less committed to the organization if they feel they were misled, which can be a future problem for your organization.
What does RJP stands for?
A realistic job preview is when the realistic information about the job and the company is given to an applicant, independently if it’s positive or negative information.
What’s the orientation process in HRM?
Is the process of introducing new hires to the organization and its purpose is to reduce inicial anxiety, familiarize new employees and facilitate the outsider.
What’s employee training?
Learning experience that changes employees’ ability to performe on the job.
Enumerate the employee training methods you know.
Traditional Training Methods:
1. On-the-Job
2. Job Rotation
3. Monitoring and Coaching
4. Experiential Exercise
5. Workbooks
6. Classroom Lectures
Technology-Based Training Methods
1. Online Content Learning
2. Videoconferencing
3. E-Learning
4. Mobile Learning
Enumerate the specific performance appraisal methods you know.
- Written Essay
- Critical Incidents
- Adjective Rating Scales
- BARS
- MBO - accomplishment of specific goals
- 360º Appraisal
- Multiperson
