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| human resource management |
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| an organization's employees, described in terms of their training, experience, judgment, intelligence, relationships, and insight. |
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| high performance work system |
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| an organization in which technology, organizational structure, people, and processes all work together to give an organization an advantage in the competitive environment. |
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| the process of getting detailed information about jobs |
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| the process of defining the way work will be performed and the tasks that a given job requires |
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| the process through which the organization seeks applicants for potential employment |
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| the process by which the organization attempts to identify applicants wit the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that will help the organization achieve its goals |
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| a planned effort to enable employees to learn job-related knowledge, skills, and behavior |
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| the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and behaviors that improve an employee's ability to meet changes in job requirements and in customer demands |
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| the process of ensuring that employees' activiites and outputs match the organization's goals |
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| identifying the numbers and types of employees the organization will require to meet its objectives |
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| collecting and using data to show that human resource practices have a positive influence on the company's bottom line or key stakeholders |
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| corporate social responsibility |
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| a company's commitment to meeting the needs of its stakeholders |
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| the parties with an interest in the company's success (typically, shareholders, the community, customers, and employees) |
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| the process of analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service |
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| the set of duties (job) performed by a particular person |
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| the study of jobs to find the simplest way to structure work in order to maximize efficiency |
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| enlarging jobs by combining several relatively simple jobs to form a job with a wider range of tasks |
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| empowering workers by adding more decison-making authority to jobs |
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| a scheduling policy in which full-time employees may choose starting and ending tiems within guidelines specified by the organization |
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| a work option in which two part-tie employees carry out the tasks associated with a single job |
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