Workforce, Jobs, & Job Analysis
This term refers to the generational group referred to as "Generation Y"
What are Millenials?
The desire that exists within a person that causes that individual to act.
What is motivation?
The process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organizational jobs is called
What is recruiting?
Choosing individuals with the correct qualifications needed to fill job within an organization
What is Selection?
The study of the way work moves through an organization
What is workflow analysis
An individual born in 1967 belongs to the generational group
What is Generation X?
This individual developed the earliest Need-Based theory of human motivation
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This includes all individuals available for selection if all possible recruitment strategies are used.
What is the labor force population?
This key term describes fitting a person to the right job
What is placement?
In the context of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, the highest human need is the need for
What is self actualization
This term refers to the percentage of the population working or seeking work
What is the Labor Force Participation Rate?
This theory assumes that one group of factors, motivators, accounts for increases in individual motivation because of enrichment and other positive work characteristics
What is the motivation/hygiene theory?
A qualified individual who is not actively looking for work but might be interested if the right job comes along.
What is a passive job candidate?
This describes the characteristics that a person must possess in order to successfully perform job duties
What is selection criterion
This practice refers to the hiring of new employees while laying off others
What is churn?
This term describes the effort directed toward accomplishing results
What is work?
This term refers to the unwritten expectations employees and employers have about the nature of their work relationships
What is a psychological contract?
The percentage of applicants hired divided by the total number of applicants offered jobs is called the
What is the job acceptance rate?
The extent to which a test or measure repeatedly produces the same results over time
What is reliability?
What is Job Enrichment
This process involves changing existing jobs in different ways to improve them.
What is job redesign?
This term describes the turnover of poorly performing individuals within an organization
What is functional turnover?
Individuals who have left an organization for other jobs are sometimes willing to return because the other positions and employers turn out to be less attractive than originally thought.
What are boomerang employees?
The ability to recognize and manage our own thoughts and feelings and the feelings of others
What is Emotional Intelligence?
The distinct image of an organization that captures the essence of the company to engage employee and outsiders.
What is the employment brand?