What is the HR function that links workforce strategies with the strategic goals and
objectives of the organization and is about forecasting staffing
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ensure that the organization has the right number of employees, with the right skills,
at the right time? - Workplace Planning
What is the strategic alignment of an organization's human capital with its business
direction? - Workforce Planning
What is a business planning strategy that identifies what an organization is about,
what it expects to do, and why it exists. - Long-range Business Strategy
What is a business planning strategy that formulates the specific organizational
goals and objectives that the organization expects to achieve within the next two to
five years? - Middle-range Business Planning
What is a business planning strategy involves developing short-term performance
goals or annual operating plans? - Short-range Business Planning
What is the purpose of workforce planning? - To identify future needs of the
organization
What is the first stage of workforce planning? - Supply Analysis
What is second stage of workforce planning? - Demand Analysis
What is the third stage of workforce planning - Gap Analysis
What is the four stage of workforce planning? - Solution Techniques
What describes the skills and knowledge of employees and is mainly used for
making placement and promotion decisions? - Skill Inventory
What is a planning system that requires an inventory of the people working for the
organization? - Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
What is a method of long-term forecasting requires managers to know what business
activity will be performed by their groups in future years and how many people will be
needed year by year to achieve their business objectives. - Unit Demand
What is the process of asking experts to submit their individual opinions and then
simply averaging their estimates? - Pooling
What is a process which consists of having experts provide their best estimates of
the future through a series of questionnaires or interviews? The information is then
collected by a third person who summarizes it and then submits a report back to the
experts. - Delphi Technique
What are the three solution techniques to solve HR gaps? - Building, Buying,
Borrowing
Why would publicizing information related to a specific employee's promotion
potential lead to less valid opinions regarding promotion material? - Supervisors may
be hesitant to make public, negative evaluations that harm careers of their
subordinates
What produces a job description and a job specification? - Job Analysis
How does workforce planning help training and development in an organization? - It
forecasts areas where obsolescence may occur
Which of the following is NOT a key roadblock to developing and achieving an
effective workforce plan? - Difficulty finding external supply to fit the demand
Is the workforce getting younger or older? - Older
What are workforce characteristics? - The necessary abilities that employees must
have for their specific job
What is the process of attracting potential job applicants? - Recruitment
What is the process used to study the work done by employees? - Job Analysis
What focuses on how much money the jobholder should be paid for performing the
job? - Job Evaluation
What is the process of determining the specific competencies associated with
successful, high performers in a particular occupation or industry? - Competency
modeling
What refers to the knowledge, skills, abilities, or behaviors that are essential for
successful performance? - Competency
What is a job description identifies the essential functions of a job and provides
information concerning a job's duties and responsibilities? - Job description
What identifies the minimum acceptable qualifications for an employee to perform a
job adequately? - Job Specifications
What is a job analysis? - It focuses on what the jobholder does and the knowledge,
skills, and abilities needed to do it.
What refers to one's understanding of the duties and responsibilities of the position
for which one is being recruited? - Position-insight
What refers to one's understanding of one's own talents? - Self-insight [Show Less]