Chapter Five - HR - The Employment Cycle Flashcards
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What is Job Analysis?
Job analysis is the study of an employee’s job in order to determine the duties performed, the time involved with each of those duties, the responsibilities involved and the equipment required.
What is a Job Description?
A job description is a summary of what the worker will be doing - the role they will have in the organisation in terms of duties and responsibilities.
What is Job Specification?
Job specification will indicate the sort of person an organisation is seeking in terms of personal qualities, skills, education and work experience.
What is Job Design?
Job design details the number, kind and variety of tasks that individual employees perform in their jobs. Jobs may be designed so they include a variety of tasks to keep employees interested and motivated.
What is Recruitment?
Recruitment is the process of attracting qualified job applicants from which to select the most appropriate person for a specific job.
What is Employee Selection?
Employee selection involves choosing the candidate who best matches the organisation’s requirements.
What is Discrimination?
Discrimination occurs when a policy or a practise disadvantages a person or a group based on a personal characteristic that is irrelevant to the performance of the work.
What is Full-Time Permanent?
Full-time permanent employees have an ongoing employment contract which includes all legally required entitlements.
What is Part-Time Permanent Employment?
Part-time permanent employment involves working fewer ordinary weekly or monthly hours compared with full-time employees.
What is a Fixed-Term Contract?
A fixed-term contract is where employment is offered for a specific period.
What are Casual Employees?
Casual employees are employed on an hourly basis.
What is Remuneration?
Remuneration is monetary payment in return for the work an employee performs.
What is a Wage?
A wage is an hourly or weekly rate of pay.
What is a Salary?
Employees who earn a salary are paid a fixed amount each year, which is then divided by 26 to give a fortnightly salary, or by 12 to give a monthly salary.
What is Salary Sacrifice?
Salary sacrifice is forgoing salary in order to receive another non-cash benefit of equivalent value.
What are On-Costs or Non-Wage Benefits?
On-costs or non-wage benefits are additional costs involved in hiring an employee, above the cost of their wages, and including superannuation, long service leave and workers compensation.
What is Induction?
Induction is a process of acquainting new employees with the organisation - its history, structures, objectives, culture, policies and practices - and the jobs they will perform.
What is Training?
Training generally refers to the process of teaching staff how to do their job more efficiently and effectively by boosting their knowledge and skills.
What is Development?
Development refers to activities that prepare staff to take on greater responsibility in the future.
What is a Learning Organisation?
A learning organisation monitors and interprets its environment, seeking to improve its understanding of the interrelationship between its actions and its environment.
What is Succession Planning?
Succession planning focuses on preparing employees with potential to take on key management positions within the organisation in the future, should the need arise.
What are Recognition and Reward Programs?
Recognition and reward programs aim at both acknowledging the work an employee has done and providing some sort of benefit, such as cash, merchandise, travel or gift certificates, in return for a job well done.
What are Intrinsic Rewards?
Intrinsic rewards come from the task or job itself, such as recognition or feedback or a sense of achievement.
What are Extrinsic Rewards?
Extrinsic rewards are outside the job iself. They may be monetary or non-monetary.
