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| People Coming together to achieve a common objective. The exist to achieve a goal (profit). |
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| ability to obtain a market share. |
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| Cause and consequence of indiv. activity within a larger group. |
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| Human Resource Management |
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| polices, procedure, and systems that influence employee behavior attitudes and performance. |
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how one variable affects another.
X leads to Y
Indep variable leads to dependent
Ex: Studing will lead to good grades |
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| are the most important asset in any organization |
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True or False
If info comes from a seemingly reliable source it must be accurate. |
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The authority to represent someone else, esp. in voting.
A person authorized to act on behalf of another. |
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| A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. |
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| you will hear new ideas. you are expected to consider new viewpoints. |
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| what are the 2 fields of management |
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Individual creates success
applied psychology
Ex: Leadership, motivation, trust |
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Market segment creates success
customer/ suppliers/ Technology
Ex: cell phones, oil field, reality TV |
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| Name the Strategic Decisions |
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| Product, Price, Profit, Quantity, and Manufacturing location |
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describe ideas or explanations that are generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field
Ex: "all the experts say" |
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| What does organizational success derive from? |
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| The HR strategy must support____ |
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| Selection, hiring, downsizing, and training |
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| the analysis is conducted of the Job, not the person. While Job Analysis data may be collected from incumbents through interviews or questionnaires, the product of the analysis is a description or specifications of the job, not a description of the person. |
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| the process of attracting, screening, and selecting a qualified person for a job. All companies in any industry can benefit from contingency or retain professional recruiters or outsourcing the process to recruitment agencies. |
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| acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. |
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| includes activities that ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many other areas. |
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To reduce in number or size: a corporation that downsized its personnel in response to a poor economy.
2. To dismiss or lay off from work: workers who were downsized during the recession.
3. To make in a smaller size: cars that were downsized during an era of high gasoline prices |
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| rearrangement) aimed at reducing or overcoming job dissatisfaction and employee alienation arising from repetitive and mechanistic tasks. |
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| The available products or services that a company offers a consumer. A business with a wide array of available choices is considered to have a wide selection |
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| organizations operate within a society. |
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| In the U.S. societal boundaries are defined by law (U.S Constitution) |
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| a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. The king is thus not subject to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or any other estate of the realm, including (in the view of some, especially in Protestant countries) the Church. |
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| What is the social Authority in History and USA |
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History---GOD then MONARCH then PEOPLE
USA----GOD then PEOPLE then GOVN'T |
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document describing general,overall, guiding principle (1789)
Its is NOT a living document |
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| Constitutional fundamentals |
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Protect rights of U.S. citizen from the govn't
individuals have personal property right(includes their bodies) |
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True or False
Constitution gives us our rights |
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| Judicial, Executive, and Legislative |
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| Judicial (supreme court) 2 camps: |
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a) activist- thinks constitution is a living document. wants change, applies the law per their political views.(Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter)
b)Orignalist- applies law per orginal content (Clearnace Thomas, Antonio Scalia) |
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| Executive Branch (president) |
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| Natural born citizen of U.S, Be 35, live here for 14 years, 4 year term-max 2 |
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| declaration by the president which bypass legislative process (u.s constitution) |
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| Legislative Branch (Congress) |
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535 members
435 house 100 senate
house 2 yrs. senate 6 years |
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| Appropriation Bill(spending) |
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1-originate in the house
2-senate approves or rejects
3-conference compromises
4-president signs or vetos |
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Revenue-expenditures more than 0=surplus
Revenue-expenditures less than 0=deficit (annually) |
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objective- he has a suit and no cash
subjective- he wasted his money on that shirt. (opinion)
prescriptive-When someone says this is how is SHOULD be. |
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| total of all deficit + surplus= debt (cumulative) |
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| Political scale (endpoints) right to left |
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| Communist, socialist, liberal(big spender), moderate, conservative, libertarian (Ron Paul) |
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| American with disabilities act(ada) |
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| a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[4] which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal. |
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| Equal Employment opportunity Commission (EEOC) |
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| Guidelines, forms, compliance for equal employment opportunity in age sex, color,disability, equal pay |
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| doctorine that hols that employment practices may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate adverse impact on members of a minority group. |
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| with the ada it is hard to define what is reasonable accommodations. |
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| he was a Scottish communist by influence on the founder four invisible hand of free market |
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as prices go up demand goes down
as prices go down demand goes up |
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| when demand and supply both go up |
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| allocates resources to productive actors |
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Federal Budget $4.0 trillion
Federal Deficit $1.5 trillion
Federal Debt $14.0 trillion |
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| what are the hiring challenges? |
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1- qualification vs. pay
2-HR may not be able to hire someone
salary increase, requirement decrease
3- HR may not know what to put in the job description. |
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The concentration of management and decision-making power at the top of an organization's hierarchy.
2. The location of all or most main departments and managers at one facility. |
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| refers to the process of grouping activities into departments. |
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| A statement of employee characteristics and qualifications required for satisfactory performance of defined duties and tasks comprising a specific job or function |
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| Management of material and information flow in a supply chain to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost.Supply chain management requires the commitment of supply chain partners to work closely to coordinate order generation, order taking, and order fulfillment. They thereby create an extended enterprise spreading far beyond the producer's location. |
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| Basic substance in its natural, modified, or semi-processed state, used as an input to a production process for subsequent modification or transformation into a finished good. |
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| Study of capabilities and limitations of mental and physical work in different settings. Ergonomics applies anatomical, physiological, and psychological knowledge (called human factors) to work and work environments in order to reduce or eliminate factors that cause pain or discomfort |
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| A broad, general, and written statement of a specific job, based on the findings of a job analysis. It generally includes duties, purpose, responsibilities, scope, and working conditions of a job along with the job's title, and the name or designation of the person to whom the employee reports. |
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| is the process, progress, or "flow" of work within a system and the rate at which that happens.Workflow analysis refers to observing how this process takes place. The analysis also involves evaluating the process and improving it for efficiency and effectiveness. |
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| are goods that have completed the manufacturing process but have not yet been sold or distributed to the end user |
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| consists of activities such as task allocation, coordination and supervision, which are directed towards the achievement of organizational aims.[1] It can also be considered as the viewing glass or perspective through which individuals see their organization and its environment |
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