The Employment Cycle
What are the three main phases of the employment cycle?
Establishment, Maintenance, and Termination.
What is a casual employee?
This type of employee works on an hourly or on-call basis without ongoing or fixed-term entitlements like paid sick leave.
What is the Fair Work Ombudsman?
This is a federal administrative body is responsible for enforcing workplace laws, investigating breaches of the National Employment Standards (NES), and ensuring employers comply with legal minimum wages.
What is and internal recruitment advantage ?
Quicker adjustment to the position
These are the 10 minimum legislative employment conditions that apply to all full-time and part-time employees in Australia, which no contract can undercut.
National Employment Standards or NES
What is induction?
This stage of the employment cycle involves introducing a new employee to the job, workplace culture, and policies.
A legally binding document sets out the minimum wages and employment conditions for a specific industry.
What is an Award?
Why must a business ensure lifting hazards and physical safety checks are conducted during group interview activities (such as at Bunnings)?
To comply with health and safety legislation and duty-of-care obligations.
Give one disadvantage of relying solely on internal recruitment.
Employees may be promoted beyond their competency level, no new ideas/people are introduced, or it can spark rivalry among unsuccessful internal applicants.
This is the study of each job to determine its tasks, duties, and responsibilities, which must be completed before writing a job description or designing the role.
Job analysis
What is external recruitment?
the process of gathering a pool of candidates from outside the business.
What is an Enterprise Agreement?
Type of agreement that is negotiated directly between an employer and the employees (or their union) at a single enterprise.
What is the legal risk if a business asks discriminatory or personal questions (regarding religion, family planning, or age) during an interview?
Breaching equal opportunity and anti-discrimination legislation.
Providing staff with time to destress and focus on wellbeing (such as corporate mental health days) is primarily aimed at achieving which two outcomes?
Staff retention and long term productivity
When a business uses online recruitment agencies, social media, or commercial websites to find candidates, name one distinct disadvantage they face compared to internal methods.
It is more expensive/time-consuming to screen a high volume of unknown applicants, or external candidates take longer to adapt to the business culture.
Name two distinct selection methods used by businesses to choose an applicant.
interviews, online selection, work testing, or psychological testing?
What is a major advantage of employing staff on a full-time permanent ongoing contract?
Greater staff loyalty, stability, and lower turnover/recruitment frequency.
How does offering fair and transparent employment contracts help a business meet its overall objectives?
It improves staff wellbeing, reduces absenteeism, boosts productivity, and helps achieve targets like profit.
What is the difference between training and development?
raining teaches current job-specific skills, whereas development prepares an employee for future responsibilities and career growth.
Explain how a dramatic advancement in workplace technology (such as automation or AI) can simultaneously reduce and increase different staffing needs.
It reduces the need for staff performing manual, routine tasks, but increases the need for staff with highly specialized technical skills, digital literacy, and data ideas.
Distinguish between a job description and a job specification.
A job description outlines the duties and responsibilities of the role, whereas a job specification outlines the qualifications, skills, and experience required of the applicant.
Explain the role of affirmative action in the workplace.
Measures taken by a business to eliminate discrimination and implement positive steps to overcome equal opportunity deficits.
True or False: An employer can legally pay an employee below the modern award rate if the employee agrees to it in writing. Give reasons.
False. Awards set the legal minimum safety net of wages and conditions that cannot be undercut.
How does poor staff performance directly impact a business's overarching objectives?
It leads to lower productivity, higher costs, decreased customer satisfaction, and failure to meet profit or growth targets.)
Distinguish between employer expectations regarding a term of notice and employee expectations regarding conditions of employment.
A term of notice is the period of time an employer expects an employee to give before leaving their job, whereas conditions of employment are what the employee expects to receive in return for their work, such as safe working environments, leave entitlements, and flexible hours.