WGU C234 Workforce Planning: Recruitment and Selection

What is the HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization and is about forecasting staffing needs, helping to ensure that the organization has the right number of employees, with the right skills, at the right time? - Workplace Planning What is the strategic alignment of an organization's human capital with its business direction? - Workforce Planning What is a business planning strategy that identifies what an organization is about, what it expects to do, and why it exists. - Long-range Business Strategy What is a business planning strategy that formulates the specific organizational goals and objectives that the organization expects to achieve within the next two to five years? - Middle-range Business Planning What is a business planning strategy involves developing short-term performance goals or annual operating plans? - Short-range Business Planning What is the purpose of workforce planning? - To identify future needs of the organization What is the first stage of workforce planning? - Supply Analysis What is second stage of workforce planning? - Demand Analysis What is the third stage of workforce planning - Gap Analysis What is the four stage of workforce planning? - Solution Techniques What describes the skills and knowledge of employees and is mainly used for making placement and promotion decisions? - Skill Inventory What is a planning system that requires an inventory of the people working for the organization? - Human Resource Information System (HRIS) What is a method of long-term forecasting requires managers to know what business activity will be performed by their groups in future years and how many people will be needed year by year to achieve their business objectives. - Unit Demand What is the process of asking experts to submit their individual opinions and then simply averaging their estimates? - Pooling What is a process which consists of having experts provide their best estimates of the future through a series of questionnaires or interviews? The information is then collected by a third person who summarizes it and then submits a report back to the experts. - Delphi Technique What are the three solution techniques to solve HR gaps? - Building, Buying, Borrowing Why would publicizing information related to a specific employee's promotion potential lead to less valid opinions regarding promotion material? - Supervisors may be hesitant to make public, negative evaluations that harm careers of their subordinates What produces a job description and a job specification? - Job Analysis How does workforce planning help training and development in an organization? - It forecasts areas where obsolescence may occur Which of the following is NOT a key roadblock to developing and achieving an effective workforce plan? - Difficulty finding external supply to fit the demand Is the workforce getting younger or older? - Older What are workforce characteristics? - The necessary abilities that employees must have for their specific job What is the process of attracting potential job applicants? - Recruitment What is the process used to study the work done by employees? - Job Analysis What focuses on how much money the jobholder should be paid for performing the job? - Job Evaluation What is the process of determining the specific competencies associated with successful, high performers in a particular occupation or industry? - Competency modeling What refers to the knowledge, skills, abilities, or behaviors that are essential for successful performance? - Competency What is a job description identifies the essential functions of a job and provides information concerning a job's duties and responsibilities? - Job description What identifies the minimum acceptable qualifications for an employee to perform a job adequately? - Job Specifications What is a job analysis? - It focuses on what the jobholder does and the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to do it. What refers to one's understanding of the duties and responsibilities of the position for which one is being recruited? - Position-insight What refers to one's understanding of one's own talents? - Self-insight