Exam One: Talent Management
Employees who are willing to take controlled risks and assume multiple roles may be a good fit for an organization pursuing which type of strategy
Growth strategy
Attracting sufficient numbers of appropriately qualified applicants is an example of
staffing process
Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of ________.
Acquiring
Jessica exhibited many extremely effective behaviors on the job. Her organization identified and documented these in a job
Critical incidents technique
Homer simpsons supervisor interviews him to determine which tasks he completes for his job. What is one disadvantage of this job analysis method
`Bias
enhancing the diversity of the organization is an example of
staffing outcome
Which of the following types of workers would most value the reward of having different tasks to do every day?
workers who are seeking skill development
Deployment involves ________.
assigning talent to appropriate jobs and roles in the organization
Which online database is often used as a resource for generating task statements
O*Net
Hiring people who are efficient, trainable, and willing to follow standardized procedures would support a(n) ________ competitive advantage.
Operational Excellence
What are the two ways that organizations can expand
Organic growth and acquisition
What is a formal group or cluster of tasks
A job
A job analysis ________.
determines a job's entry requirements
Name five sources of competitive advantage
Quality, Branding, First to market, convenience, cost,
A grouping of jobs that call for similar worker characteristics or contain parallel work tasks is known as what
A Job Family
Through __, Mr. Peterman finds out that elaine spends majority of her time doing tasks that are unrelated to her a job
A job analysis
Assigning talent to appropriate jobs and roles in the org. is part of which component of strategic staffing
Deployment
If the job of a loader exists to load packages on delivery trucks, the ability to safely lift and load packages onto a truck is a(n) ________.
Essential functions
Under the ADA, what are the fundamental duties or tasks of a position called
Essential functions
Organization have different philosophies about the value of employees. they may think of employees as assets to be managed or
Investors
A systematic process of identifying and describing the important aspects of a job and the characteristic a worker needs to perform the job well is a ________.
Job Analysis
The job analysis method that uses expert brainstorming sessions to identify the characteristics of successful workers is the ________.
Job Elements Method
What are the two main outputs of a nob analysis
Job description & Person Specification
What does the acronym KSAOs mean
Knowledge, Skills, Ability, Others
Waiting until employees have left the organization before beginning to fill open jobs is known as which type of staffing approach
Reactive Staffing
All organizational practices and decisions that affect either the number or types of individuals willing to apply for and accept job offers is ________.
Recruiting
During which stage of the 7 components of strategic staffing would a person take a cognitive ability test
Selection
Locating qualified individuals and labor markets from which to recruit is ________.
Sourcing
True or False:
Sourcing is locating qualified individuals, appropriate sources and labor markets from which to recruit.
Staffing an organization in future-oriented and goal-directed ways that support the organizations business strategy and enhance organizational effectiveness is known as what?
Strategic staffing
Which of the following, if true, would uphold a company's sustainable competitive advantage in front of rival firms?
Strategic staffing practices are difficult to imitate.
Attracting, developing, retaining, and utilizing people with the required skills and aptitudes to meet current and future business needs is known as what?
Talent Management
True or False:Pay is an example of an extrinsic reward.
True
True or False:Talent management requires the development of improved processes for attracting, developing, retaining, and utilizing people with the required skills and aptitude to meet current and future business needs.
True
When different business units of an organization each house their own staffing functions this is known as what
decentralized staffing
A job task is a(n)________
observable unit of work with a beginning and an end
Maximizing the financial return on the staffing investment is an example of
outcome goal
True or False:Most companies can replicate a competitor's capabilities by imitating the comp etitor's staffing practices.
False
Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of which component of strategic staffing
Acquisition
True or False:The increased financial return on staffing investment is an example of a process goal.
False
Mindy Lahiri has god networking skills and is learning oriented. In which type of org might be a good fit
Customer Intimacy (Pursuing a specialization)
Dwight is the only farmer that grows and sells golden beets at the scranton farmers market. Based on this, he is most likely pursuing which business strategy
First to market
Which source of competitive advantage involves an org. introducing products and services before its competitors
First to market
True or False: A job duty is an observable unit of work with a beginning and an end.
False
True or False: Proactive staffing is done in response to situations or issues
False
True or False:Companies that use the same recruiting strategies are likely to experience similar results.
False
True or False:Forecasting the skills an organization will need in the future is an example of employer branding.
False
Promotions are likely to be fastest in organizations in the ________ stage of their life cycle
Growth
What are the 7 components of strategic staffing (in order)
Workforce Planning, Sourcing, Recruiting, Selection, Acquisition, Deployment, Retention
Strategically evaluating the company's current lines of business, new businesses it will be getting into, businesses it will be leaving, and the gaps between the current skills in the organization and the skills it will need to execute its business strategy is ________.
Workforce planning
When a firm determines that it will need to hire 50 customer service representatives within the next three months, it has engaged in ________.
Workforce planning
What is the difference recruiting and sourcing
sourcing is locating qualified individuals and recruiting is the number of individuals willing to apply
Strategic staffing means ________.
staffing an organization in future-oriented and goal-directed ways that support the organization's business strategy and enhance organizational effectiveness