Chapter 2(Strategy And Human Resources Planning) Flashcards

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Attrition

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A natural departure of employees from organizations through quits, retirements, and deaths.

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Balanced scorecard (BSC)

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A measurement framework that helps managers translate strategic goals into operational objectives.

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Benchmarking

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The process of comparing the organization’s processes and practices to those of other companies.

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Core Capabilities

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Integrated knowledge sets within an organization that distinguish it from its competitors and deliver value to customers.

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Core values

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The strong and enduring beliefs and principles that the company uses as a foundation for its decisions.

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Cultural Audits

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Audits of the culture and quality of work life in an organization.

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Environmental Scanning

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Systematic monitoring of the major external forces influencing the organization.

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Hiring freeze

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A practice whereby new workers are not hired as planned or workers who have left the organization are not replaced.

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Human Capital Readiness

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The process of evaluating the availability of critical talent in a company and comparing it to the firm’s supply.

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Human resources planning (HRP)

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The process of anticipating and providing for the movement of people into, within, and out of an organization.

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Management forecasts

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The opinions (judgments) of supervisors, department managers, experts, or others knowledgeable about the organization’s future employment needs

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Markov analysis

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A method for tracking the pattern of employee movements through various jobs.

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Mission

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The basic purpose of the organization as well as its scope of operations.

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Organizational Capability

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The capacity of the organization to act and change in pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage.

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Quality of fill

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A metric designed to assess how well new hires are performing on the job.

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Replacement charts

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Listings of current jobholders and people who are potential replacements if an opening occurs.

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Severance pay

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A lump-sum payment given to terminated employees.

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Skill Inventories

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Files of personnel education, experience, interests, and skills that allow managers to quickly match job openings with employee backgrounds.

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Staffing tables

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Graphic representations of all organizational jobs, along with the numbers of employees currently occupying those jobs and future (monthly or yearly) employment requirements.

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Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM)

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The pattern of human resources deployments and activities that enable an organization to achieve its strategic goals.

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Strategic Planning

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Procedures for making decisions about the organization’s long-term goals and strategies.

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Strategic vision

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A statement about where the company is going and what it can become in the future; clarifies the long-term direction of the company and its strategic intent.

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Succession Planning

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The process of identifying, developing, and tracking key individuals for executive positions.

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SWOT analysis

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A comparison of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for strategy formulation purposes.

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Termination

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Practice initiated by an employer to separate an employee from the organization permanently.

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Trend analysis

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A quantitative approach to forecasting labour demand based on an organizational index such as sales.

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Value creation

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What the firm adds to a product or service by virtue of making it; the amount of benefits provided by the product or service once the costs of making it are subtracted.

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Values-based hiring

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The process of outlining the behaviours that exemplify a firm’s corporate culture and then hiring people who are a fit for them.