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