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-Process execution
-Managing Compliance, legal, and regulatory issues
-Management consulting, employee guidance and advocacy
-HR process and strategy totally with business process and strategy |
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| What are the 4 stages of an organization's life cycle? |
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-Entrepreneurial
-Communal
-Formalization
-Elaboration |
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| What happens during the Entrepreneurial stage? |
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| Starting up, birth of the organization |
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| What happens during the Communal stage? |
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| Developing an identity and managing conflict; setting clear channels of communication; building loyalty among employees |
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| What happens during the Formalization stage? |
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| Achieving efficient production; developing formalized procedures and practices; improved employee skills and motivation |
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| What happens during the Elaboration stage? |
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| Adaption and renewal; emphasis on new ways to perform as a response to change |
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| What are the 6 core HR functions? |
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-HR strategy
-Workforce planning/staffing
-Employee development
-Total rewards
-Employee relations
-Safety and risk management |
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| What are the 3 core competencies for HR? |
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Definition
-Business acumen
-Change management
-Practice knowledge and skill |
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Term
| What are the 3 categories of work? |
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Definition
-Transactional
-Tactical
-Strategic work |
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| Describe transactional work. |
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Definition
| Administrative, order taking, working from a menu; benefits individual employees |
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Definition
| Solution focused; benefits employee work groups and teams |
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| *Long term; linked to one or more business goals; solution-neutral in early stages; requires multiple solutions and tactics to be implemented; benefits large business units and possibly entire enterprise |
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| What are the 2 types of strategy? |
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| What are the 2 parts of business strategy? |
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-Cost leadership: being the low cost producer, focus on efficiency
-Differentiation: creating unique value through products or services |
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Term
| What are the 2 approaches to HR strategy? |
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Definition
-Universalistic approach
-Contingency approach |
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Term
| Describe the universalistic approach. |
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Definition
Seeks to identify a set of HR practices that is beneficial for all organizations
-Identifies a bundle of practices, labeled the commitment strategy, that appear to be generally beneficial
-Practices in the commitment bundle communicate the message that management cares about employees
-The commitment strategy also helps ensure that employees have the training and freedom to pursue important job tasks |
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| Describe the contingency approach. |
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Definition
-Seeks to align human resource practices with competitive business strategies
-This approach focuses on cost leadership versus a focus on differentiation
-Organizations mainly concerned with reducing costs emphasize processes and general roles
-They carefully prescribe appropriate behaviors for performing work
-Another difference is whether the organization has an internal or an external labor orientation
-Organziations with an internal labor orientation seek long-term relationships with employees, while organizations with an external labor orientation seek flexibility and do not make long term commitments to employees |
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| What are the different employment laws? |
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Definition
| Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1991, ADEA, ADA, Equal Pay Act, FMLA and Executive Order 11246 |
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Term
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Definition
| When an individual of a protected group is shown to have been singled out and treated less favorably than others similarly situated on the basis of an impermissible criterion under Title VII. |
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Term
| BFOQ(Bona Fide Occupational Qualification) |
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| A quality or an attribute that employers are allowed to consider when making decisions on the hiring and retention of employees—qualities that when considered in other contexts would constitute discrimination and thus in violation of civil rights employment law. |
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| Measures the effect an employment practice has on a class protected by Title VII. |
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| The agencies have adopted a rule of thumb under which they will generally consider a selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less than four-fifths (4/5ths) or eighty percent (80%) of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate as a substantially different rate of selection. |
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Definition
-Something for something
-Occurs when an employee is told that continued employment or advancement depends on sexual favors
-It is illegal to make employment consequences dependent on sexual favors. |
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Definition
| Occurs when comments or behavior in the workplace have the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. |
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Term
| Explain the Americans with Disabilities Act |
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Definition
-May require companies to provide disabled individuals with reasonable accommodation.
-The organization may not however have to make reasonable accommodations if doing so would create undue hardship for the organization |
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Term
| Explain the Family Medical Leave Act |
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Definition
-Under the FMLA, an employee-either female or male-may request an unpaid leave of absence, for up to 12 weeks, for four reasons:
1. The employee is unable to work because he or she has a serious health condition
2. The employee needs to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition. Immediate family members are usually limited to spouses, parents, and children who are either under 18 or disabled.
-The employee needs to care for a newborn child.
4. The employee needs to care for a child just adopted by the employee or placed with the family for foster care. |
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| The assignment of similar tasks so that they can specialize doing things well |
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| The coordination of the efforts of the employees |
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| The extent to which individual workers are given the freedom and interdependence to plan and carry out work tasks |
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| The extent to which an individuals work actions and outcomes are influenced by other people |
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| What are the 4 different job design approaches? |
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