Employees
Terms
Compensation&Benefits
Terms 2
Recruitment&Selection
100
What is the title of an individual responsible for supervising a group of employees to perform tasks (that are directly related to the creation and delivery of a company’s products or services)?
Line manager
100
What is a company's ability to create more economic advantage than it's competitors?
Competitive advantage
100
What is one of the classes into which jobs of the same or similar values are grouped?
Pay grade
100
What is treating people differently because of characteristics that have nothing to do with their ability to perform?
Discrimination
100
What are the costs linked to recruiting talent. These costs can include advertising, agency fees, relocation costs, and training costs?
Cost-per-hire
200
What is a plan for achieving a competitive advantage that influences how employees add value, impacts types of jobs employees perform, and affects attitudes and behaviors employees display?
Strategy
200
What is a technique using specific standards to make comparisons between different organizations or different segments of the organizations, with the intent of improving a product or service?
Benchmarking
200
What is additional compensation used to motivate and to reward employees for exceeding performance or productivity goals?
Incentive pay
200
What is determining job tasks and responsibilities employees are expected to perform?
Job design
200
Human resources professionals find, hire and retain the best talent in the right positions within companies, and recruiters and other HR professionals can follow these __________to keep their candidates and new hires happy and productive.
HR Best Practices
300
What is a set of underlying values and beliefs employees share that is unwritten yet understood?
Organizational culture
300
What blurs country boundaries in business activities and encourages off-shoring?
Globalization
300
What is the justice that deals with fairness in what individuals receive for their efforts, compensation for time and effort put into jobs, and how employees feel they are treated by their managers?
Distributive justice
300
What is identifying tasks, duties, and responsibilities expected to be performed in a job as well as the competencies employees must possess to be successful?
Job analysis
300
What are the employment qualifications employers are allowed to consider while making decisions about hiring and retention of employees? Hint: Relates to an essential job function and is considered reasonably necessary for the normal performance of the duties of a particular position.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
400
What is a broad term used to refer to the general management and planning of activities related to developing, maintaining, and improving employee relationships by communicating with employees, processing grievances and/or disputes?
Employee relations
400
In a strategy, jobs are geared toward creativity or customer service, employees hired with specific skills and new perspectives, jobs require cooperation, creativity, and knowledge sharing, and pay is based on individual potential or team accomplishments.
Differentiation strategy
400
What depicts pay rates currently being paid for each job within a pay grade in relation with the rankings awarded to each job during the job evaluation process?
Wage curve
400
In job analysis techniques, which approach uses a single instrument to collect data, uses Functional Job Analysis, and uses Position Analysis questionnaires?
Standardized approach
400
What is an organization's attempts to recruit, keep, and train the most gifted and highest quality staff members that they can find, afford and hire?
Talent Management
500
What are proactive policies aimed at increasing the employment opportunities of certain groups (typically, minority men and/or women of all racial groups)?
Affirmative action
500
Which international strategy involves serving markets within a particular country?
Domestic strategy
500
What is criterion used to determine fairness in pay among employees of an organization?
Internal equity
500
An employer’s behavior creates a negative work environment, leading to an employee’s resigning. Such behavior is considered a breach of contract and gives the employee the right to seek compensation in court.What is this called?
Constructive dismissal
500
What is a statement of employee characteristics and qualifications required for satisfactory performance of defined duties and tasks comprising a specific job or function?
Job specification
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