Exam 4: Matching Employees With Jobs

Contract and temporary workers are very loyal to the organization,and are very motivated to work.

The U.S.Department of Labor uses ______ to describe jobs.

If we are going to design mechanistic jobs,we try to make the job complicated so the worker can get good at it.

To complete a workflow analysis for each product or service that we provide in the organization,we have to identify the _____________ that create that product or service.

_________________identifies the estimated supply and demand for the different types of human resources needed within the organization.

All of the following are disadvantages of using temporary workers except:

One disadvantage to using questionnaires to complete job analysis activities is the expense and time it takes to train people to administer the questionnaires.

Early retirement is a good choice for solving labor shortage problems.

Taking an in-house function such as drug and alcohol counseling and having someone else do it outside the organization is called:

Job specifications identify the major tasks,duties,and responsibilities that make up components of a job.

What is Job Analysis? What is its purpose,and what are the major methods of accomplishing a job analysis?

Don is conducting a job analysis.He gives Sara a questionnaire to complete,since she has held the position of lead technician for six years now.In this scenario,Sara is ______________.

In Work flow Analysis,numbers and types of employees,monetary requirements,materials and equipment make up our ______.

Laura is trying to identify the work performed and the working conditions for the job of ombudsperson.This job has never existed at Acme Global and Laura does not know much about the job.In this case,the ________ job analysis method would be most appropriate.

Stephanie and Mallory are working to identify the work performed and the working conditions for each job within Acme Global.Their final product contains duties,responsibilities,skills,knowledge required,outcomes,and working conditions for each job.The tool they are using is _______.

Lauren and Casey are working to identify the work processes that create Acme Global's products.They are beginning with the organizational output.Next they will identify the tasks and the inputs.The tool they are using is _______.

The Acme Global Corporation has a labor surplus.Specifically,it has too many workers in one type of job and too few in another.Its best method for dealing with its surplus would be _________.

Nicole wants to apply the Job Characteristics Model to her employees' work.She plans to give her employees more discretion to make decisions in planning,organizing,and controlling their tasks.Nicole is trying to change the ________ of the jobs.

Discuss the three most common quantitative HR forecasting methods.

___________ jobs change rapidly and job analysis is not as valuable.