Intro to R&S
A computer-based system that tracks and manages employee data.
What is HRIS?
The first step in the employer branding process.
What is defining the target audience?
A product of the job analysis process that details the KSAOs and other competencies required for a job.
What is a job specification?
A legal term for a justifiable reason for a discriminatory employment practice based on the necessity of the job.
What is a bona fide occupational requirement. or BFOR
Systematic errors in measurement, or inferences made from those measurements.
Hints: Start with a "b."
What is bias?
The core beliefs and shared assumptions of organizational members are the org. ____________?
What is culture?
Term to describe a job candidate's fit with the organization’s values and culture.
What is person-organization fit?
Groups of related behaviours that are needed for successful job performance in an organization
What are competencies?
Employment equity applies to which designated groups.
Who are women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities?
Two methods that an HR professional uses to acquire evidence for test-criterion relationships.
Clue: in the notes, one method pertains to before and after a job applicant is hired.
What are predictive and concurrent validity?
The type of strategy used when an organization gains competitive advantage by offering a unique service in a specialized market.
What is a niche strategy?
Set of potential candidates who apply for a specific job.
What is an applicant pool?
Job analysis technique that emphasizes general aspects of perceptual, interpersonal, sensory, cognitive, and physical activities of the employees.
What is worker-oriented analysis?
Legislation that has precedence over all other legislation.
What is constitutional law (includes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms)?
Hypothetical difference between an individual’s observed score on any particular measurement and the individual’s true score.
What is measurement error?
Refers to exporting jobs to lower-cost locations abroad.
What is offshoring?
An approach to ensure that applicants have a realistic understanding of the job they are to perform.
What is a realistic job preview (RJP)?
A source compiled by the Canadian government that contains systematically standardized and comprehensive job descriptions in the labour market.
What is the National Occupational Classification (NOC)?
An employer must provide accommodation to eliminate practices that prevent job equity for disadvantaged groups up until what point.
What is undue hardship?
Procedure developed by Schmidt and Hunter to challenge the idea that a validity coefficient is specific to the context in which it is measured.
What is a meta-analysis?
A statement outlining the organizational purpose, long-term objectives, and activities that will be pursued.
What is a mission statement?
When candidates form an opinion that they do not want to work in the organization for which they are being recruited.
What is self-selecting out?
Adding more responsibilities to a job is called ___________?
What is job enlargement?
Note: The difference between job enrichment and job enlargement is quality and quantity. Job enrichment means improvement, or an increase with the help of upgrading and development, whereas job enlargement means adding more duties and an increased workload.
Minimum employee entitlements are most closely associated with which type of legislation?
What is employment standards?
The decrease in magnitude of the validity coefficient associated with measurement error of the predictor, the criterion, or both.
What is attenuation?