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?
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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