HRM 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hudson Institute, Interquartile Range, Job Analysis
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Ch 1, 2 25 m/c (sanchez and levine) or 1 or 2 short answer (option porter and barney article) Ch 3 and 4 25 m/c (more on the text) job analysis. Environmental scanning - systematic monitoring of the major factors influencing the organization. Goal is to identify trends i. e. iphone. Strategies and their impact on an organization include: Hr professionals use several methods to generate predictions about the future: Trend analysis - a forecasting method that extrapolates from historical organizational indices. Delphi technique - a forecasting method in which expert opinions are solicited and summarized. Id experts: develop 1st questionnaire with numeric answers. distribute to experts. Can be done via email: statistical analysis of the returned questionnaires. Descriptives etc: development of the second questionnaire. In this questionnaire the respondents are given the opportunity to change their responses or let the original responses stand.