Assignment: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
INSTRUCTIONS: Below serves as the mid-term review and homework assignment for chapters 1,3,4 & 5. Students will use their textbook and notes to define all listed below and to be submitted on July 9, 2014 before taking the mid-term exam. The assignment must be typed with a cover page to include the assignment title( Mid-Term Assignment) the student's name and class (MGMT 2001).
Chapter 1
1. What are the product and services that are provided by Human Resource Management efforts?
2. How do measurement and data-driven decision increases organizational competitive advantage.
3. What are the major domains of human resource management, explain each domain.
4. Define high performance work practices.
5. What is the relationship between competitive advantage and customer value and uniqueness?
6. Explain how an organization will redefine its core competencies through outsourcing what may be considered non-essential functional areas.
Chapter 3
1. Describe and define discrimination.
2. Explain Prima Facie and the burden of proof.
3. What is employment at will?
4. How do grievance policies limit an organizations liability in harassment cases?
5. Explain the necessity to use identical testing for selection purposes regardless of employee age, gender etc.
6. What are the conditions and requirements of reasonable accommodation and undue hardship on the firm?
7. Explain mediation and its purpose?
8. Where would one file a complaint of discrimination and/or harassment?
9. When an harassment or discrimination complaint is made are the responsibility and/or actions of the organization or its representatives?
10. How long does an does an employee have to file an harassment and does the employee have to continue employment with that organization to file a complaint, explain.
11. When does disparate treatment occur?
CHAPTER 4
1. List the criteria and content within a Job Description.
2. What are the advantages of using techniques such as questionnaires to gather work analysis information?
3. Explain why work analysis is a systematic process of gathering information?
4. What is performance appraisal?
5. What is the primary outcome of a work analysis?
6. What does job analysis focus on the job and not the person?
7. Competency models focus on how objectives are accomplished rather than what is accomplished, explain?
CHAPTER 5:
1. What are the six sequential steps of Human Resource Planning?
2. Explain the concept of Gap Analysis?
3. What is succession planning?
4. Explain effective downsizing strategies?
5. What is a yield ratio?
6. How diversity and external recruiting is complimentary of each other?
7. What does Job Relatedness require employees do?
8. What are the effects of an organization deploying retaliation tactics for any employee who may decide to make a complaint?
9. Explain the concept of BFOQ's?
10. Explain the concept of affirmative defense?
11. Explain Critical Incident Techniques?