Vocab Flashcards
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The HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization. forecasting staffing needs, helping to ensure that the organization has the right number of employees, with the right skills, at the right time.
“Workforce Planning”
The knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that are essential for successful performance.
Competency
Refers to the process of determining the specific competencies associated with being a successful high performer in a particular occupation or industry.
Competency Modeling
A company’s ____________ consists of its standards for behavior and the values shared by its employees.
Culture
A course of instruction aimed at increasing the participants’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills.
Diversity Training
Federal law that dictates how electronic communication in the workplace is monitored. The ECPA restricts the interception and monitoring of oral, wire, and electronic communications.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)
The process used to study the work done by employees.
Job Analysis
Identify the essential functions of a job and provide information concerning a job’s duties and responsibilities. They should explain what employees do, how they do it, and the conditions under which they do it.
Job Descriptions
Identifies the minimum acceptable qualifications required for an employee to perform a job adequately.
Job Specification
A business planning strategy that identifies what an organization is about, what it expects to do, and why it exists.
Long-range Business Strategy
A business planning strategy that formulates the specific organizational goals and objectives that the organization expects to achieve within the next two to five years.
Middle-range Business Planning
How the organization decides what is right and what is wrong.
Moral Philosophy
The failure to use reasonable care in the employee selection process, resulting in harm caused to others.
Negligent Hiring
The degree to which the applicant fits with the job for which he/she is applying.
Person-job Fit
The degree to which the applicant fits with the company.
Person-organization Fit
Agencies which specialize in helping employers find applicants to fill job openings.
Private Employment Agencies
The process of attracting potential job applicants.
Recruitment
The extent to which a test produces consistent results.
Reliability
A formal process in which the organization first identifies the tasks, duties, and responsibilities (TDRs) of the job, evaluates the applicant’s ability to perform the TDRs, and then finally offers the job to the most qualified applicant.
Selection
A business planning strategy involves developing short-term performance goals or annual operating plans.
Short-range Business Planning
Invokes the use of hypotheticals by asking candidates what they would do or how they would act in a certain situation.
Situational Interview
Agencies which help companies fill positions on a part-time basis without having to make a permanent hiring decision.
Temporary Staffing Agencies
Refers to whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
Validity
The HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization. Workforce planning is about forecasting staffing needs, helping to ensure that the organization has the right number of employees, with the right skills, at the right time.
Workforce Planning
