Definitions
Performance Management
Training and Development
Legal Environment
Stuff You Should Know
100

Facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself as a company continually learning and developing.

What is a learning organization?

100

The assessment of an individual’s performance in a systematic way.

What is a performance appraisal?

100

This can facilitate an organization's strategy, increase effectiveness, and improve employee recruitment and retention.

What is training and development?

100

Legislation that guarantees equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender.

What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

100

This refers to helping new employees appreciate the values and culture of a firm.

What is onboarding?

200

An organization's planned efforts to help employees acquire job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors with the goal of applying these on the job.

What is training?

200

The best person to evaluate employee performance.

Who is the immediate supervisor?

200

The first step in the ADDIE training process.

What is analyzing the training need?

200

Legislation that forbids discrimination. It also helped to establish the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

200

This concept includes the shared beliefs, values, and assumptions that exist in an organization.

What is organizational culture?

300

A set of systemic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its members with the necessary skills to meet current and future job demands.

What is Human Resource Development?

300

Compares employee performance with specific behavioral examples that are anchored to numerical ratings.

What is BARS? (Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale)

300

The process of identifying the critical positions within your organization and developing action plans for individuals to assume those positions.

What is succession planning?

300

Legislation that forbids the discrimination of employees over the age of forty.

What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967?

300

The skills, knowledge, and experience possessed by an individual or population, are viewed in terms of their value or cost to an organization.


What is human capital?

400

Gives an organization a competitive focus and at the same time allows the organization to align, rather than isolate each function of the business.

What is a strategic plan?

400

A common error when evaluating employee performance is the rater does not diligently measure performance, provide feedback, and document results, and often cannot remember the earlier part of the performance period.

What is the recency effect?

400

The four levels of training evaluation; reaction, learning, behavior, result.

What is the Kirkpatrick model?

400

This law disallows discrimination based on mental disability, physical disability, or chronic illness.

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

400

Intangible information that can be difficult to explain in a straightforward way, such as things that are often “understood” without necessarily being said, and are often personal or cultural.

What is tacit knowledge?

500

Acronym for the most famous training model.

 

What is ADDIE?

500

A feedback system that uses inputs from peers, self, customers, managers, and subordinates.

What is 360-degree?

500

Able to transform itself by acquiring and disseminating new knowledge and skills throughout the organization.

What is a learning organization?

500

You could be held liable for this if you fail to conduct regularly scheduled evaluations according to company policy.

What is negligence?

500

The best way to CYA in HR.

What is document, document, document?