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