mgt ch14 midtrm 2
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- human resource management
- the set of organizational activites directed at attracting, developing, and maintaining an effective workforce.
- human capital
- flects the organization's investment in attracting, retaining, and motivationg an effective workforce.
- title VII of the civil rights act of 1964
- forbids discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, or national origin in all areas of the employment relationship
- adverse impact
- when minority group memebers pass a selection standard at a rate less than 80 percent of the pass rate of majority group members
- equal employment opportunity commission
- charged with enforcing title VII of the civil rights act of 1964
- age discrimination in employment act
- outlaws discrimination against people older than forty years old; passed 1967 amended in 1987 and 1986
- affirmative action
- intentionally seeking and hiring qualified or qualifiable employees from racial, sexual, and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the organization
- americans with disabilities act
- prohibits discrimination against peopole with disabilities
- civil rights act of 1991
- amends the original civil rights act, making it easier to bring discrimination lawsuits while also linitig punitive damages
- fair labor standards act
- sets a minimum wage and requires overtime pay for work in excess of forty hours per wiik; passed in 1938 and amended frequently since then
- equal pay act of 1936
- requires that men and women be paid the same amount for doing the same job
- employee retirement income security act of 1974
- sets standards for pension plan management and provides federal insurance if pension funds go bankrupt
- family and medical leave act of 1993
- requires employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family and medical emergencies
- national labor relations act
- passed in 1935 to set up procedures for employees to vote on whether to have a union; also known as the wagner act
- national labor relations board
- established by the wagner act to enforce its provisions
- labor management relations act
- passed in 1947 to linit union power, also known as the taft-harley act
- occupational safety and health act of 1970
- directly mandates the provision of safe working conditions
- employment at will
- a traditional view of the work place that says organizations can fire their employees for whatever reason they want; recent court judgements are limiting employment at will
- job analysis
- a systematized procedure for collecting and recording information about jobs within an organization
- replacement chart
- lists each important managerial position in the organization, who occupies it, how long he or she will probably remain in the position, and who is or will be a qualified replacement
- employee information system (skills inventory)
- contains information on each employee's education, skills, experience, and career aspirations; usually computerized
- recuriting
- the process of attracting individuals to apply for jobs that are open
- internal recuriting
- considering current employees as applicants for higher-leel jobs in the organization
- external recuriting
- getting people from outside the organization to apply for jobs
- realistic job review
- provides that applicants with a real picture of what performing the job that the organization is trying to fill would be like
- validation
- determining the extent to which a selectin device is really predictive of future job performance
- training
- teaching operational or technical employees how to do the job for which they were hired
- development
- teaching managers and professionals the skills needed for both present and future jobs.
- performance appraisal
- a formal assessment of how well an employee is doing his or her job
- behavorially anchored rating scale
- a sophisticated rating method in which supervisors construct a rating scale associated with behavorial anchors
- 360 degree feedback
- a performance apprasial system in which managers are evaluated byeveryone around them -their boss, their peers, and their subordinates
- compensation
- the financial remuneration given by the organization to its mployees in exchange for their work
- job evaluation
- an attempt to assess the worth of each job relative to other jobs
- benefits
- things of value other than compensation that an organization provides to its workers
- labor relations
- the process of dealing with employees who are represented by a union
- collective bargaining
- the process of agreeing on a satisfactory labor conduct between management and a union
- grievance procedure
- the means by which a labor contract is enforced
- knowledge workers
- workers whose contributes to an organization are based on what they know