Chapter 1: Strategic Staffing

Putting together an attractive job offer and negotiating with the candidate the company wants to hire is part of ______

acquiring

What is a most common reason for a company preferring to "churn" rather than keep existing employees?

When technology is developing very rapidly

Staffing professionals promote the goals of society by

helping to match people with jobs and organizations

When an employer studies the causes of turnover among its high performers it is engaging in _________

staffing analytics

_________________ ensures that an organization has people ready to assume leadership positions when they become available

succession management

An organization's competitive advantage is _________

what it can do differently from its competitors

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

What is the first of the 7 components of strategic staffing?

workforce planning

When a firm determines that it will need to hire 50 customer service reps within the next 3 months, it has engaged in __________-

workforce planning

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

Staffing can be considered a cornerstone of human resource management because it _______

determines the workforce representing the company

Staffing ethics are gaining more attention as ________ increase

legal risks

If a staffing specialist evaluates the organization's external labor market to determine how challenging it will be to hire the talent her employer needs over the next few years, which of the following is being done?

planning

What does an employer have to do if it wants to successfully hire from the traditional labor pool?

provide competitive pay

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

recruiting

The primary goal of ________ is to get the right people interested in working for an organization or in a specific job, then persuade them to apply and ultimately accept the job offer if it is extended

recruiting

Assigning a high-performing sales associate to work with the company's most important client is an example of _____-

redeployment

Interviewing job candidates to assess their fit with the job and organization is part of _______

selecting

Locating qualified individuals and labor markets from which to recruit is _______

sourcing