What are the old roles for HRM? - Answer-(cost center) Keep track of forms, policy & procedure enforcement, payroll and insurance, cost reduction.
What are the new roles of HRM? - Answer-(strategic partner) Employee development, integration with core bus, change management, result oriented.
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What are the old roles for HRM? - Answer-(cost center) Keep track of forms, policy &
procedure enforcement, payroll and insurance, cost reduction.
What are the new roles of HRM? - Answer-(strategic partner) Employee development,
integration with core bus, change management, result oriented.
Why do personnel policies exist? - Answer-influence the characteristics of the positions
to be filled. An organization's personnel policies are its decisions about how it will carry
out human resource management, including how it will fill job vacancies.
Why is HR important/valuable to organizations? - Answer-Hr had become one of the
most important organizational functions that involve strategic planning.
How does HR create a competitive advantage for companies? - Answer-An example is
fortune 100 seems to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Through steps:
analysis and design of work,
hr planning,
recruiting, selection,
training and development, performance management,
compensation
What does it mean for HR to be a "strategic partner" in an organization? - Answer-An
example: Developing a program to select the right employees for a dynamic work
environment.
What is the resource-based view of the firm? - Answer-RBV is the value of resources
depends on several factors. Resources (financial, physical, interpersonal) to create
resource value it needs to be either rare or difficult to imitate.
Who is responsible for HRM? - Answer-YOU, if you are in charge of employees
(performance management, training, recruitment & Selection).
A research study showed that a one standard deviation improvement in HR policies was
associated with _____ decrease in turnover - Answer-7%
To be an effective talent manager, HR needs to understand..... - Answer-The structure
of the organization
What is "human capital"? - Answer-The training, experience, judgement, intelligence,
relationships, and insights of your employees that CAN add economic value to the
organization.
, In the article, "Why we love to hate HR...and what HR can do about it," what does the
author argues are steps that HR can take to be effective (and stop the hate)? - Answer-
Set the agenda by controlling layoffs, recruiting,
flexible work arrangement, performance management
Who can perform a job analysis? - Answer-HRM. Job design focuses on jobs that are
either being created or changed in some manner. This is the process of defining the
way work will be performed and the tasks that will be required in a given job
What are the steps of a job analysis? - Answer-1. Job description
2. Job Specification
Job Description - Answer-list of the job tasks, rate the importance of those tasks
Job specification - Answer-formulating the KSAOs needed to perform the most
important tasks
In job specification, what is a "skill"? - Answer-Skill is "Know how" which are trainable
and people are not born with.
What is the Fleishman Job Analysis System? - Answer-It is a type of job analysis tool in
which Job analysis technique that asks subject-matter experts to evaluate a job in terms
of the abilities required to perform the job.
Job design is the process of......... - Answer-defining the way work will be performed and
the tasks that will be required in a given job.. (Spend a lot of time understanding job
design; it's critical to many aspects of HRM)
What is industrial engineering and its purpose in HRM? - Answer-It is the study of jobs
to find simplest way to structure work to maximize efficiency. The purpose is to reduce
complexity of work, quicker training, used for highly specialized and repetitive jobs.
In the Job Characteristics Model, understand what is meant by: skill variety - Answer-
The extent to which a job requires a variety of skills to carry out the tasks involved.
In the Job Characteristics Model, understand what is meant by: task identity - Answer-
The degree to which a job requires completing a "whole" piece of work from beginning
to end (for example, building an entire component or resolving a customer's complaint).
In the Job Characteristics Model, understand what is meant by: task significance -
Answer-The extent to which the job has an important impact on the lives of other
people.
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