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Mathis HR 12th vocab from book site

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Autonomy   Extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling.  
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Business process re-engineering (BPR)   Measures for improving such activities as product development, customer service, and service delivery.  
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Competencies   Individual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by individuals or teams.  
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Compressed workweek   Schedule in which a full week's work is accomplished in fewer than five 8-hour days.  
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Duty   Work segment composed of several tasks that are performed by an individual.  
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Feedback   Amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed.  
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Flextime   Scheduling arrangement in which employees work a set number of hours a day but vary starting and ending times.  
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Job   Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee.  
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Job analysis   Systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs.  
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Job description   Identification of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job.  
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Job design   Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.  
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Job enlargement   Broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks to be performed.  
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Job enrichment   Increasing the depth of a job by adding responsibility for planning, organizing, controlling, or evaluating the job.  
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Job rotation   Process of shifting a person from job to job.  
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Job sharing   Scheduling arrangement in which two employees perform the work of one full-time job.  
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Job specifications   The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) an individual needs to perform a job satisfactorily.  
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Marginal job functions   Duties that are part of a job but are incidental or ancillary to the purpose and nature of the job.  
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Performance standards   Define the expected levels of performance in key areas of the job description.  
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Person/job fit   Matching characteristics of people with characteristics of jobs.  
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Responsibilities   Obligations to perform certain tasks and duties.  
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Self-directed team   Organizational team composed of individuals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished.  
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Skill variety   Extent to which the work requires several different activities for successful completion.  
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Special-purpose team   Organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services.  
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Task   Distinct, identifiable work activity composed of motion.  
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Task identity   Extent to which the job includes a "whole" identifiable unit of work that is carried out from start to finish and that results in a visible outcome.  
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Task significance   Impact the job has on other people.  
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Virtual team   Organizational team composed of individuals who are separated geographically but linked by communications technology.  
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Work   Effort directed toward accomplishing results.  
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Workflow analysis   Study of the way work (outputs, activities, and inputs) moves through an organization.  
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Acceptance rate   Percent of applicants hired divided by total number of applicants offered jobs.  
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Applicant pool   All persons who are actually evaluated for selection.  
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Applicant population   A subset of the labor force population that is available for selection using a particular recruiting approach.  
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Flexible staffing   Use of workers who are not traditional employees.  
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Independent contractors   Workers who perform specific services on a contract basis.  
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Job posting   System in which the employer provides notices of job openings and employees respond by applying.  
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Labor force population   All individuals who are available for selection if all possible recruitment strategies are used.  
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Labor markets   External supply pool from which organizations attract employees.  
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Recruiting   Process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organizational jobs.  
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Selection rate   Percentage hired from a given group of candidates.  
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Strategy   A general framework that provides guidance for actions.  
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Yield ratios   Comparisons of the number of applicants at one stage of the recruiting process with the number at the next stage  
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Behavioral interview   Interview in which applicants give specific examples of how they have performed a certain task or handled a problem in the past.  
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Cognitive ability tests   Tests that measure an individual's thinking, memory, reasoning, verbal, and mathematical abilities.  
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Concurrent validity   Measured when an employer tests current employees and correlates the scores with their performance ratings.  
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Correlation coefficient   Index number that gives the relationship between a predictor and a criterion variable.  
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Negligent hiring   Occurs when an employer fails to check an employee's background and the employee injures someone on the job.  
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Negligent retention   Occurs when an employer becomes aware that an employee may be unfit for work, but continues to employ the person, and the person injures someone.  
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Non-directive interview   Interview that uses questions developed from the answers to previous questions.  
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Panel interview   Interview in which several interviewers meet with candidate at the same time.  
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Person/organization fit   The congruence between individuals and organizational factors.  
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Physical ability tests   Test that measure an individual's abilities such as strength, endurance, and muscular movement.  
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Placement   Fitting a person to the right job.  
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Predictive validity   Measured when test results of applicants are compared with subsequent job performance.  
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Predictors   Measurable or visible indicators of a selection criterion.  
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Psychomotor tests   Tests that measure dexterity, hand-eye coordination, arm-hand steadiness, and other factors.  
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Realistic job preview   Process through which a job applicant receives an accurate picture of a job.  
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Selection   Process of choosing individuals with qualifications needed to fill jobs in an organization.  
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Selection criterion   Characteristic that a person must possess to successfully perform work.  
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Situational interview   Structured interview that contains questions about how applicants might handle specific job situations.  
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Situational judgment tests   Tests that measure a person's judgment in work settings.  
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Stress interview   Interview designed to create anxiety and put pressure on applicants to see how they respond.  
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Structured interview   Interview that uses a set of standardized questions asked of all job applicants.  
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Team interview   Interview in which applicants are interviewed by the team members with whom they will work.  
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Work sample tests   Tests that require an applicant to perform a simulated task that is a specified part of the target job  
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Active practice   Performance of job-related tasks and duties by trainees during training.  
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Behavior modeling   Copying someone else's behavior.  
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Blended learning   Learning approach that combines short, fast-paced, interactive computer-based lessons and teleconferencing with traditional classroom instruction and simulation.  
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Cost-benefit analysis   Comparison of costs and benefits associated with training.  
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Cross training   Training people to do more than one job.  
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E-learning   Use of the Internet or an organizational intranet to conduct training on-line.  
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Immediate confirmation   Based on the idea that people learn best if reinforcement and feedback are given as soon as possible after training.  
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Informal training   Training that occurs through interactions and feedback among employees.  
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Knowledge management   The way an organization identifies and leverages knowledge in order to be competitive.  
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Massed practice   Practice performed all at once.  
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Orientation   Planned introduction of new employees to their jobs, co-workers, and the organization.  
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Performance consulting   Process in which a trainer and the organizational client work together to determine what needs to be done to improve organizational and individual results.  
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Reinforcement   Based on the idea that people tend to repeat responses that give them some type of positive reward and avoid actions associated with negative consequences.  
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Self-efficacy   Person's belief that he or she can learn the training program content.  
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Spaced practice   Practice performed in several sessions spaced over a period of hours or days.  
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Training   Process whereby people acquire capabilities to perform jobs.  
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Assessment centers   Collections of instruments and exercises designed to diagnose individuals' development needs.  
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Career   Series of work-related positions a person occupies throughout life.  
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Career paths   Represent employees' movements through opportunities over time.  
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Coaching   Training and feedback given to employees by immediate supervisors.  
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Development   Efforts to improve employees' abilities to handle a variety of assignments and to cultivate employees' capabilities beyond those required by the current job.  
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Dual-career ladder   System that allows a person to advance up either a management or a technical/professional ladder.  
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Individual-centered career planning   Career planning that focuses on an individual's responsibility for a career rather than on organizational needs.  
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Job rotation   Process of shifting a person from job to job.  
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Management mentoring   Relationship in which experienced managers aid individuals in the earlier stages of their careers.  
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Organization-centered career planning   Career planning that focuses on identifying career paths that provide for the logical progression of people between jobs in an organization.  
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Repatriation   Planning, training, and reassignment of global employees to their home countries.  
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Sabbatical   Time off the job to develop and rejuvenate oneself.  
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Succession planning   Process of identifying a long-term plan for the orderly replacement of key employees.  
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Talent management   Concerned with enhancing the attraction, development, and retention of key human resources  
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job   A is a grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for employees.  
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Outputs, activities, and inputs   included in a workflow analysis  
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Re-tool   Which of the three phases of business process reengineering includes looking at new technologies  
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It is used to communicate the valued behaviors throughout the organization   The competency-based approach to job analysis is used by organizations for which of the following reasons?  
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Results orientation   is an example of a behavioral competency.  
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managerial straitjacket   A common managerial anxiety about job analysis is  
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essential job functions   The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) calls the fundamental job duties of the position that an individual with a disability holds or desires  
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performance standards   if employees know what is expected and how performance is measured, they will have a better chance of performing satisfactorily  
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Determines qualifications and anticipates needs to fill vacancies   During recruitment the line manger typically handles which task  
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contingency firms   Executive search firms which charge a fee only after a candidate has been hired by the client company are called  
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yield ratios   Over time, employers can approximate the necessary size of the applicant pool by using  
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tasks, duties, and responsibilities performed   The essential functions and duties section of the job description should contain clear and precise statements on the  
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correlation coefficient   A is a number that ranges from -1.0 to +1.0 with higher scores suggesting stronger relationships between a predictor variable and a criterion variable.  
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work with top management to develop strategic training plans   Some organizations have created positions titled "Chief Learning Officer," whose primary function is to  
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a desire to learn   When they are ready to learn, people have the ability to learn, ----, and the belief that they can learn.  
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Adults have a need to be self-directed.   is an adult learning principle from Malcolm Knowles?  
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