Motivation
The idea that setting ambitious but attainable goals can motivate workers and improve performance if the goals are accepted, accompanied by feedback, and facilitated by organizational conditions.
What is the Goal-Setting Theory?
What are the four functions of management?
What is planning, organizing, leading, and controlling?
means giving employees the authority to make a decision without consulting the manager and the responsibility to respond quickly to customer requests.
What is empowerment?
These individuals do recruiting, selecting, developing, motivating, evaluating, compensating, and scheduling employees to achieve organizational goals.
What is a human resource manager?
An HRIS is...
What is a Human Resource Information System?
This motivation technique involves moving employees from one job to another.
What is job rotation?
This item outlines the organization’s fundamental purposes.
What is a mission statement?
This type of manager sells decisions and ideas of change.
What is the autocratic leader?
Established a minimum wage and overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week for employees who are not otherwise exempt.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?
include part-time workers (anyone who works less than 35 hours per week), temporary workers (workers paid by temporary employment agencies), seasonal workers, independent contractors, interns, and co-op students.
What are contigent workers?
The tendency for people to behave differently when they know they are being studied.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Define what the acronym stands for...SWOT.
What is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?
This type of leader presents a tentative decision but notes that it could be subject to change.
What is a participative / democratic leader?
Businesses with 50 or more employees must provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year upon birth or adoption of an employee’s child or upon serious illness of a parent, spouse, or child.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ?
When your boss asks you to set down and discuss job outcomes and performance this is the area of HR...
What is performance appraisal?
A motivational strategy that emphasizes motivating the worker through the job itself.
What is job enrichment?
the process of preparing alternative courses of action the firm can use if its primary plans don’t work out.
What is contigency planning?
The traits of this type of leadership, managers characteristics include warmth, friendliness, and understanding.
What is free-rein leadership?
What is a job analysis?
If an HR manager comes to WKCTC to talk to graduates about open positions, this is a function of HR...
What is recruitement?
If you finish a goal and are highly motivated you are motivated by this type of reward.
What is an intrinsic reward?
If I am the Finance Division Head, I am at this level of management.
What is middle management?
This type of management helps employees not have to reinvent the wheel within an organization.
What is knowledgement management.
Multigenerational workforce. Older Millennials and Gen Xers hold management positions, whereas Gen Zers are entering the workforce and many Baby Boomers are delaying retirement.
What is a challenge in human resource mangement?
If a fireperson is practicing putting out a fire they are doing this type of training...
What is a job simulation?