Workforce Planning, Diversity, and Employee
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Organizations known for the quality of their products and services strongly believe that _____
are the key to those results
employees
Organizations strive to retain talented workers in a hot job market by offering employees
flexible work schedules
Globalization has been encouraged by
the ease of travel and communication
Companies that outsource work far from their home countries are said to be
outsourcing or off-shoring
The measure of output of goods and services relative to the input of labor, capital, and
equipment is known as
productivity
To manage diversity you should replace inflexibility and intolerance with
adaptability and acceptance
Which generation is also known as the "baby busters?"
Generation X
Subconscious expectations about what people can and cannot do at particular times of their
lives are termed
age grading
Which of the following is not for everyone, but it may work especially well with clerical
positions where the need for coordination of the overall workload is minimal?
Flextime
Job sharing
,Flexible scheduling
Teleworking
Performance at an acceptable but not outstanding level, coupled with little or no effort to
improve one's current performance is termed
mid-career plateau
Which method of job analysis uses vignettes comprising brief actual reports that illustrate
particularly effective or ineffective worker behaviors?
Critical incidents
Which of the following focuses on the process and outcome of how work is structured,
organized, experienced, and enacted?
Job design
A _____ predicts future people requirements based on an analysis of the future availability of
labor and future labor requirements, tempered by an analysis of external conditions
workforce forecast
How firms compete with each other and how they attain and sustain competitive advantage is
the essence of
strategic management
In this job analysis method, because the worker is also his/her own observer, he/she can
report on activities that would not be observed often
Critical incidents
Interviews
Observation
Job performance
In the employment context, _____ can be viewed broadly as the giving of an unfair
advantage/disadvantage to the members of a particular group in comparison with the
members of other groups.
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A(n) _____ is a scheme that allots to employees ever-improving employment rights and
benefits as their relative lengths of pertinent employment increase.
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, Title VII is most relevant to the employment context because it _____ on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex, or national origin in all aspects of employment.
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_____ refers to those actions appropriate to overcome the effects of past or present policies,
practices, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity.
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As affirmed by the ____, when a charge of adverse impact is made, the plaintiff must identify
a specific employment practice as the cause of the discrimination.
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If employers fail to check closely enough on a prospective employee who then commits a
crime in the course of performing his/her job duties, they can be held liable for
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_____ is an industry term for losses due to employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud, and
administrative errors
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_____ describe a tendency among interviewers to evaluate a current candidate's interview
performance relative to those that immediately preceded it
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_____ is the pattern of basic assumptions a given group has invented, discovered, or
developed in learning to adapt both to its external and internal environments
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Just as organizations choose people, people choose _______________ that fit their
personalities and career objectives
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A labor market is a geographical area within which the forces of supply interact with the
forces of demand, and thereby determine the price of:
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Typically, the first step in an employee's introduction to company policies, practices, and
benefits is a(n) _____ program