HRMmmm Delicious
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, resulting in hundreds of additional employees quitting.
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?
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 laid off over 10,000 employees within 1 year.
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?
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 manufacturing company traded in their culture of safety for the 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 rhyming term for a performance management technique where the lowest performing employees are fired every year.
What is "rank and yank?"
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?
She stars in the 2009 movie, Up In the Air, with George Clooney as a young HR worker whose job it is to fire people; perhaps the post-college job for her character Becca in Pitch Perfect.
Who is Anna Kendrick?
When people discuss women making $.80 per $1.00 compared to men, they are identifying the presence of this.
What is a gender wage gap?
Performance review system where supervisors, peers, and subordinates rate employee performance
What is a 360-Degree Review?
A systematic procedure for studying jobs to determine their various elements and requirements
What is job analysis?
Indeed and LinkedIn are useful for this HR function.
What is recruiting, job searching, or networking?
One year after pouring $10 Billion into building a new product, "The Metaverse," this company laid off nearly 15,000 workers to cut costs.
What is Meta/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?