Exam 4: Analyzing Work and Human Resource Planning

The degree to which the job gives the worker freedom,discretion,and independence in scheduling the work and determining how to do the work is called __________.

Job holder characteristics that are vital to job performance are __________.

After performing a job __________ on its sales force,General Electric learned that its salespeople were spending 80 percent of their time on bureaucratic tasks unrelated to Sales.

Selecting and managing aspects of organizational structure in order to facilitate organizational goal accomplishment is known as organizational __________.

__________ describes how work is organized to meet the organization's goals.

Human resource planning is aligning the organization's human resources to effectively and efficiently accomplish the organization's strategic goals.

When interest rates rise,the demand for houses tends to __________,decreasing the demand for skilled trade workers and mortgage specialists.

Identify and explain the five characteristics on which jobs differ according to scholars J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham.How do the characteristics work together?

A __________ graphically shows current jobholders,possible successors,and each successor's readiness to assume the job.

The ability to use some sort of knowledge in performing a physical task,often referred to as psychomotor activities,is known as a(n) __________.

Bottom-up __________ starts with lower level managers' estimates of the firm's future talent needs.

Job __________ is the first step in designing effective staffing,training,and performance management.

A __________ is a written description of the duties and responsibilities of the job itself.

Preparing employees in more than one job or in multiple skills to enable them to do different jobs is called __________.

Although __________ improved productivity,it also increased the monotony of work.

A(n) __________ is a strategy for proactively addressing an expected talent shortage or surplus.

Trend analysis refers to using future employment patterns to predict a firm's future labor needs.

Job enlargement refers to adding more jobs at the same level of responsibility and skill to a department.

__________ is a type of horizontal job expansion.

__________ reflect(s) the cost of one country's currency in terms of another currency.