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C 6
Chapter 6 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Human resource management | The management function concerned with getting, training, motivating, and keeping competent employees |
| Affirmative action programs | Programs that ensure that decisions and practices enhance the employment, upgrading, and retention of members of protected groups |
| Board representatives | Employees who sit on a company's board of directors and represent the interest of employees |
| Emplyment planning | The process by which managers ensure they have the right numbers and kinds of people in the right places at the right time |
| Human resource inventory | A report listing important information about employees such as name, education, training, skills, languages spoken, and so forth |
| Job analysis | An assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessaryto perform them |
| Job description | A written statement that descries a job |
| Job specification | A written statement of the minimum qualifications that a person must possess to perform a given job successfully |
| Recruitment | Lacating, identifying, and attracting capable applications |
| Selection process | Screeming job applicants to ensure that the most appropiate candidates are hired |
| Reliability | The degree to which a selection device measures the same thing consistently |
| Validity | The proven relationship between a selection device and some relevant criterion |
| Performance-simulation tests | Selection devices based on actual job behaviors |
| Realistic job preview | A preview of a job that provides both positive and negative information about the job and the company |
| Orientation | Introducing a new employee to the job and the organization |
| Employee training | A learning experiance that seeks a relatively permanent change in employees by improving their ability to perform on the job |
| Performance management system | A system that establishes performance standards that are used to evaluate employee performance |
| 360-degree appraisal | An appraisal device that seeks feedback from a variety of sources for the person being rated |
| Discipline | Actions taken by a manager to enforce an organization's standards and regulations |
| Employee counseling | A process designed to help employees overcome performance-related problems |
| Compensation administration | The process of determining a cost-effective pay structure that will attract and retain employees, provide an incentive for them to work hard, and ensure that pay levels will be perceived as fair |
| Skill-based pay | A pay system that rewards employees for the job skilld they demonstrate |
| Variable pay | A pay system in which an individual's empensation is contigent on performance |
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