Exam 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Affirmative Action
An attempt by an organization to actively recruit and select talented employees from traditionally under tapped pools
Human resource functions
Tasks and duties human resource managers perform (ex. Determining, the organization’s human resource needs, recruiting, selecting, developing, counseling, and rewarding employees)
Affirmative action is NOT
A government mandate that forces organizations to hire unqualified employees
Disparate Treatment
Intentional discrimination; treatment of one class of employees differently from other employees
Adverse impact
Condition that occurs when the selection rate for minorities or women is less than 80 percent of the selection rate for the majority group in hiring, promotions, transfers, demotions, or any selection decision
Reasonable Accomodation
Accommodations for employees with disabilities as long as the accommodations do not impose an undue hardship on business operations
Bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQ)
Permits employer to use religion, age, sex, or national origin as a factor in its employment practices when reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business
KSAO’s
Knowledge, skills, abilities, other characteristics
Knowledge
Identifiable factual information necessary to perform a job
Skills
Specific proficiencies necessary for performing the tasks that make up a job
Abilities
General and enduring capabilities for doing the job
Other Characteristics
Any other pertinent characteristics not covered under knowledge, skills, and abilities
Job Design
Process of structuring work and designating the specific work activities of an individual or group of individuals to achieve certain organizational objectives; who, what, where, when, why, how
Job Analysis
Process of determining and reporting pertinent information relating to the nature of a specific job
Human Resource Planning
Process of determining the human resource needs of an organization and ensuring that the organization has the right number of qualified people in the right jobs at the right time
Human Resource Management
Activities designed to provide for and coordinate the human resources of an organization
What are the functions of HRM?
- planning, recruitment, selection
- Development
- Compensation and benefits
- Safety and health
- Employee and labor relations
- Human resource research
Planning, recruitment and selection
Job analysis, forecasting human resources, recruiting, selecting and hiring
Human Resource Development
Training employees, designing and implementing development programs, designing systems to appraise independent performance, assisting employees with career plans
Compensation and benefits
Designing and implementing compensation and benefit systems, ensuring compensation and benefits are fair and consistent
Employee and labor relations
Serving as intermediary between organization and its unions, designing discipline and grievance handling systems
Human Resource Research
Providing human resource information base, describing employee communication systems
Recruitment
Process of seeking and attracting a pool of people from which qualified candidates for job vacancies can be chosen
Advantages of internal recruiting
- have idea of strengths & weaknesses
- Performance evaluations available
- Reduced chance of making wrong decision
- Emp. Knows about organization
- Positive effect on emp. motivation
- Organization has investment
