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What is staffing? - correct answer ✔✔process of acquiring, deploying and retaining a workforce
of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness.
Know the difference between the 5 types of staffing models:
CH.1 - correct answer ✔✔Model 1: Deals with the transitional matrix, the staffing QUANTITY
model. This model deals with just numbers, not with quality.
Model 2: Job requirement to person's KSAO's need to match, but must still match reward to
motivation. Person/Job Match seeks to align characteristics of individuals & jobs in ways that
will result in desired HR outcomes.
Model 3: Expanded view of the match to find how well they match the jobs requirements &
rewards. Person/Org match
Model 4: Shows the staffing system components & the general sequence in which they occur
Model 5: Depicts that organization's mission and it's goals/objectives drive both org. strategy
and HR & staffing strategy which interact with each other when they are being formulated.
Leaders to staffing policies and programs and serves as an overlay to both support activities and
core staffing activities.
What are the 3 types of employment relationships?
,CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔1. Employer-employee
2. Independent contractor
3. Temporary Employee
What is the employer-employee relationship?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔a culmination of the person/job matching process. The contracts are
written or oral (both are legally enforceable, however the oral is only for up to 1 year)
What is the independent contractor relationship?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔NOT an employee & frees the employer of tax withholding.
What is the temporary employee relationship?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔No special legal stature, and both have a considerate amount of
control & both are jointly liable
What is disparate treatment?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔Disparate treatment is where people are treated inconsistently with
intentional discrimination (EASIER TO PROVE)
What is disparate impact?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔consistent treatment to everyone that RESULTS in the unfair
treatment of a protected class *can be because of tests/selection tests*
, What is the Civil Rights Act (1964 & 1991)?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔created by the EEOC. CLAIMS MUST BE MADE WITHIN 180 DAYS!! If
an agreement cannot be reached, the right to sue notice is sent or the EEOC can litigate.
Includes Title VII.
What did the CRA of 1991 add?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔Title VII!! Disparate impact. Increases plaintiff's burden of proof as
victims can be sued for compensatory & punitive damages.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔prohibits discrimination against qualified people with disability. It's a
case by case determination. On the application, you can put EEO and if you need
accommodations, you can contact the org or not. The org. is not required to create job for the
disabled, give preferential treatment or hire a shadow employee.
What is the Age Discrimination Employment Act?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔There is no protection under ADEA for those <40. Age CAN be used as
a BFOQ, especially in regards to safety. Prohibits a mandatory retirement age.
What is the Immigration Reform & Control Act?
CH.2 - correct answer ✔✔illegala to hire or continue to employe anyone not authorized to work
in the US.