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What is employee alignment?

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Linking organisational goals to employee’s personal goals in order to reach higher engagement and satisfaction

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What are the two influencing factors on employee alignment?

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Management style and organisational culture

3
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What was Drucker’s contribution to employee engagement theory?

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Management by Objectives

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What are the 4 areas of objective setting according to Drucker?

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  1. Profitability
  2. Management performance
  3. Worker performance
  4. Public responsibility
5
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What was Kaplan and Norton’s contribution to employee objectives theory?

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The balanced scorecard

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What are the 4 key areas of the balanced scorecard?

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  1. Financial
  2. Customer
  3. Internal process
  4. Innovation and learning
7
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What are the 4 steps in management people performance?

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  1. Identify assessment criteria
  2. Agree performance levels
  3. Monitor and control
  4. Periodic appraisals
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What is an appraisal?

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A systematic review and assessment of an employee’s performance, potential and training needs

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What are the 3 purposes of appraisal?

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  1. Reward review
  2. Performance review
  3. Potential review
10
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What is the critical factor in appraisal?

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Feedback

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What are the 3 formats of appraisal?

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  1. Manager led
  2. Self led
  3. Multi source (360)
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What are 6 reasons that appraisal may be ineffective?

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  1. Confrontational
  2. Judgmental
  3. Seen as an informal chat
  4. Seen as a bureaucratic step
  5. Only an annual exercise
  6. Focus on recent events
13
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What are the 4 categories of performance based reward?

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  1. Performance related pay (commission or bonus)
  2. Profit based approaches (year end bonus)
  3. Equity based approaches (shares)
  4. Non financial (job titles, thank yous)
14
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What are the 2 options when employee performance is poor?

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Improved performance plan or termination

15
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What is concillation?

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Parties meet for informal discussion to resolve a dispute

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What is mediation?

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A mediator is provided to hear the dispute and make recommendations

17
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What is arbitration?

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An arbitrator is appointed to make binding rules

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What are the generally accepted steps of escalating poor employee performance or behaviour?

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Informal warning, formal warning, final written warning, suspension, dismissal

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What are the 5 best practices for managers in relation to the disciplinary process?

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  1. Ensure staff are familiar with the process
  2. Act quickly and decisively
  3. Be consistent
  4. Remain impersonal
  5. Respect privacy
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What are the generally accepted steps of reporting a grievance?

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Sound out to a colleague or rep, raise the issue with line manager, go to higher manager or HR, internal grievance procedure, industrial tribunal

21
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What is mentouring?

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The long term passing of support, guidance and advice from a more experienced colleague

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What are the 4 key benefits of mentoring to the organisation?

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  1. Faster career progression
  2. Improved motivation
  3. Significant impact on retention
  4. More effective succession planning
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What are the 4 key benefits of mentoring to the mentee?

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  1. Knowledge and behavioural improvements
  2. Better management of career goals
  3. Developing wider network
  4. Increased confidence
24
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What is coaching?

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The passing on of skills and knowledge in a supportive and collaborative environment

25
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What are the 4 main rights of the employee in relation to health and safety?

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  1. Provide a safe work environment
  2. Communicate H&S policy to staff
  3. Ensure training
  4. Risk assess all hazards
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What are the employees responsibilities in regards to health and safety? (4)

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  1. Take care of themselves and others
  2. Use equipment properly
  3. Inform the employer of danger
  4. Keep work areas safe and tidy
27
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What is direct discrimination?

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If a person treats someone less favourably than they would another because of characteristics they hold

28
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What is indirect discrimination?

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When an organisation makes a decision or puts in place a particular policy or practise, which, on the face of it appears to treat everyone equally, but which in practise leads to people from a protected group being treated less favourable than other people

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What is wrongful dismissal?

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If the employer breaches contract, e.g. dismissal without giving notice period

30
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What are the damages for wrongful dismissal?

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The difference between actual and contractual dismissal period

31
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What is constructive dismissal?

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The employee feels forced to resign

32
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What is unfair dismissal?

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When the employer does not act reasonably e.g. union related, pregnancy, unfair selection for redundancy

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What 5 reasons might count as fair dismissal?

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  1. Lack of capability
  2. Misconduct
  3. Redundancy
  4. Following fairly applied disciplinary procedure
  5. Failing to carry out reasonable orders
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What is organisational culture?

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The specific collection of values and norms that re shared by people and groups in an organisation that control the way they interact

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What are organisational values?

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Beliefs relating to the goals an organisation should pursue, and the way in which organisational members should behave

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What are Schein’s 4 levels of culture?

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  1. Artefacts
  2. Values
  3. Assumptions (deepest level)
  4. Norms