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Development of Employees -- Chapter 8 - ANSWER 1. Be able to identify and explain the 4 steps approaches to employee development (pgs 239-251) - ANSWER1. formal education: Organizations may support employee development through a variety of formal educational programs, either at the workplace or off-site 2. assessment 3. job experiences: the combination of relationships, problems, demands, tasks, and other features of an employee's jobs -employees must learn new skills, apply them, a...

Employee Screening: BC China - ANSWERAligning workers with tasks to better serve country Work during the Industrial Revolution - ANSWER●Steam driven factories ●Low skilled employees ●Unsafe, dangerous, child labor, long hours, hot and dirty ●Working class, 80% of society, had little power ●Concerns about conditions ●Workers continued to band together into unions ●Unrest lead to strikes, strikes lead to unrest Triangle Factory Fire - ANSWER(1911) 146 women killed while l...

Explain the meaning of total rewards and how/why people perceive their value differently. (Refer back to our class activity of choosing different jobs based on your needs, values and interests, etc.) - ANSWERThe idea of "total rewards" expands the view that compensation is more than just a paycheck and traditional benefits• Includes anything and everything employees value and the employer is willing and able to offer• What people value is different• For the applicant/employee it is o...

Forecasting - ANSWERThe attempts to determine the supply and demand for various types of human resources to predict areas within the organization where there will be labor shortages and surpluses -qualitative nad quantitative methods Trend analysis - ANSWERconstructing and applying statistical models that predict labor demand for the next year given relatively objective statistics from the previous year (Ex: if an organisation has implemented a new training program for managers in order to...

Under the right conditions, they provide predictions that are much more precise than judgmental methods. - ANSWERWhat is an advantage of statistical forecasting methods? Trend analysis - ANSWERa process that accurately predicts labor demand for the next year using leading indicators. a transitional matrix - ANSWERQuestions such as "Where did people who were in each job category go?" and "Where did people now in each job category come from?" can be answered with the help of: ...

employee development - ANSWERcombination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers protean career - ANSWERcareer that frequently changes based on changes in the person's interests, abilities, and values and in the work environment assessment - ANSWERcollecting information and providing feedback to employees about their behavior, communication style, or skills myers-briggs ...

Under the right conditions, they provide predictions that are much more precise than judgmental methods. - ANSWERWhat is an advantage of statistical forecasting methods? Trend analysis - ANSWERa process that accurately predicts labor demand for the next year using leading indicators. a transitional matrix - ANSWERQuestions such as "Where did people who were in each job category go?" and "Where did people now in each job category come from?" can be answered with the help of: hi...

employee development - ANSWERcombination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers protean career - ANSWERcareer that frequently changes based on changes in the person's interests, abilities, and values and in the work environment assessment - ANSWERcollecting information and providing feedback to employees about their behavior, communication style, or skills myers-briggs ...

Performance Management - ANSWERSeries of activities to ensure performance from employees Performance Appraisal - ANSWERProcess of determining how well people are doing in their jobs What is the step before encouraging employee participation in the appraisal? - ANSWERProvide direction after identifying expectations trait/ behavior/ results approach - ANSWERwho they are (last helpful) / how they work/ what they produce (most helpful) Entitlement Approach - ANSWERBased off tenure (how l...

voluntary turnover - ANSWER-turnover initiated by an employer (often with employees who would prefer to stay) -typically, employees who leave voluntarily are either org's worst performers, who quit before they are fired, or its best performers who can easily find attractive new opportunities outcome fairness - ANSWER-judgement that the consequences given to employees are just -consistent outcomes; knowledge of outcomes; outcomes in proportion to behaviors -orgs promote outcome fairness ...