Chapter 5
Goal setting and strategic planning is this step in human resource planning
What is the second?
This term is the process where human resource professionals make decisions about who will or will not be allowed to join an organization
What is personnel selection?
________ performance standards are characteristics of effective training objectives
What are measurable?
Managers provide for ________, a combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers
What is employee development?
A test that is valid in other contexts beyond the context in which it was developed is known as a ________ method
What is generalizable?
Organizations use this process to gain an edge over competitors
What is human resource planning?
Screening applications to see which ones meet the basic requirements for the job is this step in the personnel selection process
What is the first?
The process of identifying the tasks, knowledge, skills, and behaviors that training should emphasize.
What is task analysis?
The goal of _______ is preparation for the current job, while the goal of development is the preparation for future job opportunities.
What is training?
An on-the-job training program that is typically funded by an educational institution as a component of an academic program.
What is an internship?
An organization that uses only ______ recruitment can wind up with a workforce whose members all think alike and therefore may be poorly suited to innovation.
What is internal?
________ systems might reject qualified people who didn't use the same keywords as the job description
What is automated?
A needs assessment logically begins with this step
What is instructional design?
On the MBTI, individuals with a _______ preference tend to evaluate the impact of the alternatives on others, as well as their own feelings; they are more subjective.
What is Feeling (F)?
The ______ is a training method that involves representing a real-life situation with trainees making decisions resulting in outcomes that mirror what would happen on the job
The similarity between natural attrition and early retirement strategies for reducing a labor surplus.
What are strategies that yield slow results for an organization
When making a selection decision research has shown that this activity can be unreliable, have low validity, and biased against a number of different groups
What is interviewing?
This question can be answered by performing a _______ analysis "Are employees ready for training?"
What is person?
A sales firm regularly enrolls some of its employees in a six-month marketing course with a leading university. At the end of the course, the employees are able to perform better in the organization. This method of employee development is called ________
What is formal education?
_____________ involves adding challenges or new responsibilities to employees' current jobs.
What is job enlargement?
This shows you information about the number of employees currently performing a job, the number likely to be in those jobs next year, and the number expected to move to other positions in the organization
What is a transitional matrix?
The degree to which two sets of numbers are related are known as __________
What is correlation coefficients?
A work-study training method that teaches job skills through a combination of on-the-job training and classroom training
What is an apprenticeship?
The four general approaches that companies use for employee development
What are formal education, assessment, job experiences, and interpersonal relationships?
Bringing in outsiders via ______ recruitment may expose the organization to new ideas or new ways of doing business.
What is external?