Talent Aq. Midterm HW
Bella Vista Inc. needs to hire a new marketing manager after the former manager retired. The company recruited James Anderson, who was employed in Webster & Co., and offered him the job of manager. This is an example of ________.
external talent focus
Working from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. is an example of ________.
flextime
The number of applicants hired from specific subgroups is the ________ statistic.
flow
When a call center fires an employee who cannot meet her call volume goals, which of the following types of turnover has occurred?
functional
Which of the following is a way in which companies usually deal with temporary employee surpluses?
removing contingent workers
Which of the following visually shows each of the possible successors for a job and summarizes their strengths, present performance, promotion readiness, and development needs?
replacement charts
Strategic staffing means ________.
staffing an organization in future-oriented and goal-directed ways that support the organization's business strategy and enhance organizational effectivenes
Costco's __________________ is that employees on all levels should receive market competitive pay, full benefits, discretion over how to do their work, and adequate resources, because they believe that employees make the difference in their retail operation.
talent philosophy
To hire technical skills a company expects to need in six months, it would engage in ________.
talent-oriented staffing
Hiring yield refers to ________
the percent of applicants ultimately hired
Companies generally try to minimize turnover that is ________.
voluntary, dysfunctional, and avoidable
An organization's competitive advantage is ________
what it can do differently from its competitors
________ are more broadly defined components of a successful worker's repertoire of behavior needed to do the job well.
Competencies
Axis Auto tries to keep its operational spending as low as possible so that it can pass its savings on to customers in the form of lower prices. This is known as a ________ strategy
cost-leadership
Asking a departing employee why he or she is leaving the firm is a(n) ________.
exit interview
A BFOQ is a(n) ________.
characteristic that is essential to the performance of a specific job
Cybertronics creates a taskforce to develop strategies for attracting and retaining highly-skilled and qualified employees. The committe recommends, among other things, giving employees in key positions more autonomy and higher salaries. This is an example of:
Talent management
Department store BigTen refused to hire Max because of his religion. The store is in violation of ________.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
________ is a quantitative technique that can be used to analyze a firm's internal labor markets and forecast its internal labor supply
Transition analysis
________ involves looking at past employment patterns and using those patterns to predict a firm's future labor needs.
Trend analysis
When a selection test results in the disproportionate hiring of one group over another, ___________ has occurred.
adverse impact
In staffing, O*NET is used for ________.
background job analysis information
Assigning a high-performing sales associate to work with the company's most important client is an example of ________
deployment
A job analysis ________.
determines a job's entry requirements
After a wave of retirements, new employees hired to replace the retirees are likely to experience what type of socialization?
disjunctive
A manager only hires Hispanic women as secretaries. This is an example of ________.
disparate treatment
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 function
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
A job task is a(n)________.
observable unit of work with a beginning and an end
