Chapters 5 and 6-Intro to Business

What is the meaning of human resources?

• The people who represents a business
• The best person to do the job
• The people employed to do work in a business
• Supervises employees and sets tasks to be done

Retention is

• How long an employee can remember instructions for.

• How long an employee has worked for a business.

• The proportion of a business's workforce that stays with the business over a period of time.

• The proportion of employees who are absent from work over a period of time.

Statements of an applicants suitability for a particular job.

• CV

• References

• Job advert

• Person specification

When a job vacancy is filled from within the existing workforce.

• Shortlisting

• Headhunting

• External recruitment

• Internal recruitment

When a job vacancy is filled from any suitable person not already employed by the business.

• Shortlisting

• Headhunting

• External recruitment

• Internal recruitment

Personnel is a common name for

• human resources

• job applicants

• newly hired workers

• temporary employees

A detailed outline of the duties, qualifications, and conditions required to do a specific job is called a

• background check

• job application

• job description

• resume

Actively looking for qualified candidates to fill a job is called

• development

• employment

• procurement

• recruitment

The process of verifying certain information provided by a job applicant is called a _____ check

• background

• credibility

• personnel

• reference

Comments about a job applicant's character and qualifications for a job are called a

• recognition

• reference

• referral

• resume