Assignment 2 | M01 TA

___________ is elimination or reduction of jobs because of downsizing or outsourcing.

• Redundancy

• Referral program

• Recruitment

• Retention

The ________ lists a job's specific duties as well as the skills and training needed to perform a particular job.

• job description

• organization chart

• job analysis

• work aid

When should an organization begin engaging employees?

• Job interview

• Recruitment

• Orientation

• Performance review

What is meant by building a candidate pipeline?

• Using alternative recruiting sources and workers who are not regular employees

• Developing a pool of applicants that will be available when a job opening needs to be filled

• Establishing a specific plan of action for meeting your recruitment objectives

• Encouraging the best potential candidates to apply

Which of the following is a recruitment cost associated with employee replacement?

• Outplacement

• Reference checks

• Orientation

• Orientation

Which of the following terms refers to a systematic comparison done in order to determine the worth of one job relative to another?

• job analysis

• job evaluation

• job description

• job classification

Which of the following statements about effective recruiting is NOT true?

• What works for one organization will usually apply to another organization.

• Job specifications should reflect the collective input of managers, supervisors, incumbents

  and others.

• Recruiters should show genuine interest in job candidates and treat them like valued

  prospective employees.

• Organizations should recruit continuously rather recruiting only to fill specific existing

  openings.

What is the primary HR challenge of outsourcing?

• A firm is still accountable for the actions of its subcontractors, but it exercises less control over them.

• It raises labor costs because of overtime requirements.

• Subcontractors tend to take on less work than they can handle, which means that the firm

  needs to hire additional workers.

• Customers tend to be more satisfied with subcontractors than with regular employees, which creates conflict in the workplace.

Average time to hire people for job vacancies is called ________

• time-to-fill

• cost per hire

• yield ratio

• employee

  turnover

What is a recruitment method that rewards employees for recommending candidates?

• referral program

• skills inventory

• staffing

• succession planning