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employees - Ans:✔✔-The individuals who work for a company.
human resources practices (HR practices - Ans:✔✔-the practices that a company has put in place to
manage employees
competencies - Ans:✔✔-Set of behaviors encompassing skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal
attributes that are critical to successful work accomplishment.
competitive advantage - Ans:✔✔-a set of unique features of a company and its products that are
perceived by the target market as significant and superior to those of the competition
line manager (manager) - Ans:✔✔-individuals who are responsible for supervising and directing the
efforts of a group of employees to perform tasks that are directly related to the creation and delivery of
a company's products or services
employees - Ans:✔✔-people who work for someone else
environmental influence HR - Ans:✔✔-impact the Human Resource Management Operations within an
organization.
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Talent management - Ans:✔✔-a company's ability to attract, develop, and keep talented employees.
Primary HR Activities: - Ans:✔✔-encompass work design and workforce planning, managing employee
competencies, and managing employee attitudes and behavior
HR Challenges: - Ans:✔✔-challenges that mangers must consider in the management of employees that
relate to organizational demands, environmental influences, and regulatory issues
Org Demands - Ans:✔✔-internal factors, Including strategy, company characteristics, org culture, and
employee concerns
Environmental influences: - Ans:✔✔-external factors, including labor force trends, globalization,
technology, and ethics and social responsibility
Regulatory issues: - Ans:✔✔-a special subgroup of environmental influences that includes federal, state,
and local legislation that protects the rights of individuals and the company with regard to the
employment process
JOB DeSIGN - Ans:✔✔-Job design involves deciding what employees will do on a day-to-day basis, as well
as how jobs are interconnected.
Outsourcing - Ans:✔✔-and send work to other companies, often in other countries, or use other forms
of labor such as contingent workers, temporary employees, and independent contractors.17
selection - Ans:✔✔-focuses on choosing the best person from that pool.
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A recruitment value proposition - Ans:✔✔-addresses the question: "Why would someone want to work
for this company?"1
Effective performance management involves - Ans:✔✔-more than just evaluating employees,
however. It also focuses on providing employees with feedback (positive and negative), on an ongoing
basis, and on using employee learning and development activities to improve current and future
performance
. Some of the major tools that managers use to guide employee efforts on the job are - Ans:✔✔-
compensation, incentives, performance management programs, and employee benefits, health, and
wellness programs.
If employees feel that their company does not value them, - Ans:✔✔-they may not work as hard as
possible.
In contrast, if employees feel that their company compensates them at a fair level for the job that they
perform, - Ans:✔✔-they are more likely to work harder to help the organization meet its goals
alignment - Ans:✔✔-the extent to which HR activities are designed to achieve the goals of an organizati
internal alignment - Ans:✔✔-the outcome of ensuring that specific practices within each HR activity are
consistent with one another and aligned across the primary HR activities
external alignmen - Ans:✔✔-the outcome of ensuring
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employees - Ans:✔✔-The individuals who work for a company.
human resources practices (HR practices - Ans:✔✔-the practices that a company has put in place to
manage employees
competencies - Ans:✔✔-Set of behaviors encompassing skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal
attributes that are critical to successful work accomplishment.
competitive advantage - Ans:✔✔-a set of unique features of a company and its products that are
perceived by the target market as significant and superior to those of the competition
line manager (manager) - Ans:✔✔-individuals who are responsible for supervising and directing the
efforts of a group of employees to perform tasks that are directly related to the creation and delivery of
a company's products or services
employees - Ans:✔✔-people who work for someone else
environmental influence HR - Ans:✔✔-impact the Human Resource Management Operations within an
organization.
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Talent management - Ans:✔✔-a company's ability to attract, develop, and keep talented employees.
Primary HR Activities: - Ans:✔✔-encompass work design and workforce planning, managing employee
competencies, and managing employee attitudes and behavior
HR Challenges: - Ans:✔✔-challenges that mangers must consider in the management of employees that
relate to organizational demands, environmental influences, and regulatory issues
Org Demands - Ans:✔✔-internal factors, Including strategy, company characteristics, org culture, and
employee concerns
Environmental influences: - Ans:✔✔-external factors, including labor force trends, globalization,
technology, and ethics and social responsibility
Regulatory issues: - Ans:✔✔-a special subgroup of environmental influences that includes federal, state,
and local legislation that protects the rights of individuals and the company with regard to the
employment process
JOB DeSIGN - Ans:✔✔-Job design involves deciding what employees will do on a day-to-day basis, as well
as how jobs are interconnected.
Outsourcing - Ans:✔✔-and send work to other companies, often in other countries, or use other forms
of labor such as contingent workers, temporary employees, and independent contractors.17
selection - Ans:✔✔-focuses on choosing the best person from that pool.
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A recruitment value proposition - Ans:✔✔-addresses the question: "Why would someone want to work
for this company?"1
Effective performance management involves - Ans:✔✔-more than just evaluating employees,
however. It also focuses on providing employees with feedback (positive and negative), on an ongoing
basis, and on using employee learning and development activities to improve current and future
performance
. Some of the major tools that managers use to guide employee efforts on the job are - Ans:✔✔-
compensation, incentives, performance management programs, and employee benefits, health, and
wellness programs.
If employees feel that their company does not value them, - Ans:✔✔-they may not work as hard as
possible.
In contrast, if employees feel that their company compensates them at a fair level for the job that they
perform, - Ans:✔✔-they are more likely to work harder to help the organization meet its goals
alignment - Ans:✔✔-the extent to which HR activities are designed to achieve the goals of an organizati
internal alignment - Ans:✔✔-the outcome of ensuring that specific practices within each HR activity are
consistent with one another and aligned across the primary HR activities
external alignmen - Ans:✔✔-the outcome of ensuring
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