Midterm set 2 - Recruitment and Selection

Active

A college senior looking for her first full time job is an ______ job seeker

Are not easily learned on the job

A job analysis that produces a valid selection system identifies characteristics in candidates that ________

Disparate Treatment

A manager only hires hispanic workers as secretaries. This is an example of ______

Union Shops

A right to work state prohibits ________

Filing vacancies quickly with people who are able to perform with minimal job training

A software company has a high turnover rate. What staffing strategy would be most appropriate?

Job Analysis

A systematic process of identifying and describing the important aspects of a job and the characteristic of a worker needs to perform the job well is ________

Signaling

Karen learns that her new job at the bookstore has no other female employees. Thinking that this could lead her employees and coworkers to treat her unfairly she declines the offer. This is an example of ______

Making sure that hiring methods are job-related

Legal reasons for doing a job analysis relate to ________

Expands from within by opening new factories or stores

Organic growth takes place when an organization _______

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Software that tracks recruits to identify how many candidates are at each stage of its hiring process is called an ________

Succesion Management

The ongoing process of recruiting, evaluating, developing, and preparing employees to assume other positions in the firm in the future is _______

Staffing Yields

The term that refers to the proportion of applicants moving from one stage of the hiring process to the next?

Obtaining its competitive advantage

To maximize an employers investment in staffing, it should focus on the jobs that are critical to _________

Ikea

To reduce the high turnover rate, the company changed its recruiting strategy from one focused on hiring the best-qualified people to one emphasizing the company's values and providing RJP's to let poor fit self-select out. This was _____

H-1B

When a U.S. employer cannot find a qualified American for a position, it can hire a non-US citizen who can show proof of their eligibility for employment in the US through the _______ visa program

Moral Judgement

When a manager decides how to most fairly identify internal candidates for a promotion, she is making a ________

Contract workers

Work done by _____ is considered value-adding

Spillover Effect

Amy was unhappy with the way she was treated when she applied for the position of shop-floor assistant at a local retail outlet. When her friend hears about this, she stops shopping at that store. This is an example of:

Employee Referrals

An HR manager trying to recruit for a number of key positions in a firm asks the best talent to recommend the best employees they've worked within the past or employees they feel would be good performers. This is an example of __________

Allows either the employee or employer to terminate that employment at any time

Employment at will is an employment relationship which ___________

The employer clearly defining expected recruiter behaviors

Ethical recruiter behavior begins with

Efficiency

Focusing on maximizing how quickly a position can be filled improves the ______ of the staffing process.

Training

If an employer is unable to hire candidates with the desired qualifications _________ may be its only option

Judgemental Forecasting

If managers are asked to estimate their optimal headcount for the following year for staffing planning purposed, they probably will use:

Local

In geographic targeting, the labor market used to source lower-level positions in a firm is most likely to be _______

Background job analysis information

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