Look Mom, I Know Stuff About HR!
The full title of this class
What is human resource management?
The process by which organizations attempt to attract new employees
What is recruitment?
After buying Twitter, this guy fired half of the employees, only to see hundreds more walk out late last week.
Who is Elon Musk?
This word, describes a biased tendency to pre-maturely judge an individual based on group membership
What is prejudice?
This type of training allows performance of job tasks so that, for example, pilots can practice flying in a low risk environment
What is job simulation training?
A systematic procedure for studying jobs to determine their various elements and requirements
What is job analysis?
Online sites like GlassDoor, Indeed, and LinkedIn are useful for this
What is recruiting, job searching, or networking?
After pouring $10 Billion per year into building a new product, "The Metaverse," this company recently laid off 13,000 workers to cut costs.
What is Meta or Facebook?
This bias describes relying on recent employee performance, ignoring information from the past
What is recency bias?
A rating scale that uses critical incidents to assess performance may use a BARS approach, an acronym that stands for this
What is Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale?
When employees need to practice their skills we may send them to one of these
What is a training class?
This process usually involves application forms, interviews, employment tests, background checks, references.
What is selection or hiring?
This airplane manufacturing company traded in their culture of safety for tech culture trends of innovation and agility, until their airplanes started falling out of the sky
Who is Boeing?
A manager who favors employees with a common background to theirs, show this bias
What is a similarity bias?
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch popularized this technique, in which this happens to the lowest performing employees every year
What is firing or "rank and yank?"
This part of HRM focuses on an employees' future growth
What is development?
Employment policies such as sick-leave, vacation, retirement, and healthcare represent this type of compensation.
What are benefits?
After rapid hiring during the pandemic, this Jeff Bezos founded company plans to layoff 10,000 employees in the coming months
Who is Amazon?
Janey interviews for a job right after Shirtless Jimmy. Because Jimmy interviews poorly, Janey getting the job may demonstrate this effect
What is the contrast effect?
Rating method where every employee in a group must be sequentially compared to every other employee
What is Paired Comparison?
The acronym KSAO stands for this
What are knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics?
In this type of job interview the interviewer asks everyone these same set of questions
What is a structured interview?
In the movie Up in the Air, the HQ of Ryan Bingham's company (CTC) was located in this Midwestern U.S. city
What is Omaha, Nebraska?
When people discuss women making $.80 per $1.00 compared to males, they are identifying the presence of this.
What is a wage gap?
System where supervisors, peers, subordinates and even customers rate performance
What is a 360-Degree Review?