Exam 4: Matching Employees With Jobs

List and discuss three of the four major approaches to job design.

When using the interview method to conduct a job analysis,training is necessary for the interviewer because ___________________.

In _________ sharing,two or more people share one whole job,including the workload and any benefits that are associated with that job.

Katie and Emily both work at Acme Global.Next month,Katie will work in Emily's job in the accounting department while Emily works in Katie's job in the marketing department.After the month is over,they will return to their regular jobs,hopefully having learned new skills and gained new perspectives.This is an example of _________.

Companies typically do worse financially after a large-scale layoff than they did before.

_______________ can be achieved through rotation,enlargement,and enrichment.

Describe the process of workflow analysis and identify why it is important to HRM.

___________,in its simplest form,is whether or not we measured what we thought we measured.

Alex wants to apply the Job Characteristics Model to her employees' work.She plans to sit down with each employee and describe how the employee's job impacts the organization and brings in customers.Alex is trying to change the ________ of the jobs.

Stable jobs are characteristic of fluid organizations.

What is the difference between job sharing and work sharing?

Willie found he did not have enough work to keep him busy throughout the work day.He did not want to work harder,but he also did not want to be idle.His boss found some more tasks for him so that he had plenty to do.This is an example of ________.

Biological job design focuses on making the job simple and repetitive.

What is a job analysis method that asks workers to write down the tasks that they accomplish as they go about their job?

Marissa has two assistants.She assigns one assistant to all administrative tasks and the other assistant to all research tasks.Marissa is using a ________ design for her assistants' jobs.

What is the difference between job enlargement and job enrichment?

What is a document that identifies the major tasks,duties,and responsibilities that are components of a job?

Core hours are most associated with what concept?

After predicting a surplus of labor,our only choice to eliminate the surplus is layoffs.

Job specifications describe the job,not the person who will do the job