Mgmt 432 Test 1

Assessing job candidates and deciding whom to hire

Selecting

If a company employs two office assistants for every nine architects (a staffing ration of 2:9) and it plans to expand and hire 18 new architects, how many new office assistants will it need to hire?

4

Involves putting together job offers that appeal to chosen candidates and persuading job offer recipients to accept those job offers and to join the organization

Acquiring

Hiring people who are adaptable, learning-oriented and who have good networking skills would support a _____ competitive advantage.

Customer intimacy

If a company's employees have talents that would be useful to the organization and the company is not taking advantage of these talents, it is not being efficient in the activity of___________.

Deploying

assigning talent to appropriate jobs and roles in the organization

Deploying

In analyzing a job of a stenographer that is to be advertised as a vacancy, an employer found that the _____ for the job was rapid typing skills.

Essential function

All organizational practices and decisions that affect either the number or types of individuals willing to apply for and accept job offers Entices candidates to apply to organization and accept job offers

Recruiting

Process of familiarizing newly hired and promoted employees with their job, workgroup, and organization as a whole

Socializing

Locating qualified individuals and labor markets from which to recruit identifies people who would be good recruits

Sourcing

The process of staffing an organization in future oriented and goal oriented ways that support the organizations business strategy and enhance organizational effectiveness

Strategic Staffing

What is: -Longer-term planning -alignment with the firm's business strategy -alignment with the other areas of HR -alignment with the labor market

Strategic staffing systems

What is: -less tied to strategy -more reactive and likely to be done in response to an opening -lacks continuous improvement effort

Traditional Staffing

The process of predicting an organizations future employment needs and the availability of current employees and external hires to meet those employment needs and execute the organizations business strategy

Workforce Planning

Usually involves both the hiring manager and a staffing specialist Can be short term and focus on an immediate hiring need Can be long-term and focus on the organizations needs in the future

Workforce planning

Seven components of Strategic staffing

Workforce planning Sourcing Talent Recruiting Talent Selecting Talent Acquiring Talent Deploying Talent Retaining Talent

If managers are asked to estimate their optimal headcount for the following year for staffing planning purposes, which of the following has been used?

judgmental forecasting

Which of the following are employees of a company who take on the operation of certain functions, or staff an entire office or factory on a contractual basis for a client or company?

leased workers