HR Designations
HRM Functions
HR Environment
HR's Changing Role
Miscellaneous HR
100
HR Generalist
What is the role that performs a variety of HR tasks?
100
Staffing
What is a process to hire the right # of people with the right skills, in the right jobs, at the right time, to achieve organizational objectives.
100
Legal Considerations
What are the laws, court decisions and executive orders that affect human resource management?
100
HR Managers
Who are individuals who normally act in an advisory (or staff) capacity when working with other (line) managers regarding human resource matters.
100
HRIS
What is the Human Resource Information System -- any organized approach for obtaining relevant and timely information on which to base human resource decisions.
200
HR Specialist
What role only performs one of the five functional areas of HR?
200
HR Development
What is the HRM function consisting of not only training and development but also individual career planning and development activities, OD, and performance management and appraisal.
200
Labor Market
What is the geographic area from which employees are normally recruited?
200
HR Outsourcing
What is the process of hiring external HR professionals to do the HR work that was previously done internally.
200
External Environment
What are Factors outside an organization’s boundaries that affect a firm’s human resources make-up.
300
Executive
Who is the top-level manager who reports to the CEO or head of a major division?
300
Compensation
What is the total of all rewards provided employees in return for their services. Rewards can include: Direct (pay), Indirect (benefits) and NonFinancial (psychic equity).
300
Unions
What is a group of employees who have joined together to negotiate with management the wages, benefits and working conditions in a company.
300
HR Shared Service Center (SSC)
What is a center that takes routine, transaction-based activities dispersed throughout the organization and consolidates them in one place.
300
Employer Branding
What is a firm’s corporate image or culture that is focused on attracting the type of employees the firm is seeking.
400
Safety & Health
What are the activities or programs to reduce the exposure of injuries or accidents to employees and support their physical and emotional health.
400
Shareholders
What are individuals who own stock in an organization and can therefore influence how management runs the company by casting their "vote" at the shareholders meeting.
400
Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
What is a company that leases employees to other businesses.
500
Employee & Labor Relations
What are the activities tied to the movement of employees in an organization such as promotions, demotion, termination and resignation (ER - employee relations). Also, the activities where a third party represents the interests of employees on pay, benefits and terms and conditions of employment (LR - labor relations).
500
Competition
Who are companies that produce similar products or services and whose success depends on hiring the best talent.
500
Line Managers
Who are Individuals directly involved in accomplishing the primary purpose of the organization.
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