RMG 200 Chapter Notes -Human Resource Management, Job Scheduler, Glass Ceiling

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18 Sep 2012

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Four human resource management activities that build commitment through developing partnering relationships with employees are: Through use of language and cut substantively by lowering wage differentials and increasing communications between managers at different levels in the company. Staffing policy that involves hiring new employees only for positions at the. Families lowest level in the job hierarchy and then promoting employees for openings at higher levels in the hierarchy. Flextime: job scheduling system that enables employees to choose the times they work. The increasing importance of having diverse workforce. The growth in legal restrictions on hr practices. Use of technology to increase employee productivity. Minority groups now embrace their differences and want employers to accept them for who they are. Retail customers" racial and ethnic backgrounds are increasingly diverse. Fundamental principle of managing diversity is recognition that employees have different needs and require different approaches to accommodating those needs.

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Techniques for building employee empowerment include:

a. building communication networks that include employees.

b. developing open, supportive supervisors

c. building high-morale organizations.

d. moving responsibility from both managers and staff to production employees.

e. All of the answers are techniques for employee empowerment.

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Which of the following statements is true about the differences between training and development?

A. Training is future-oriented, while development focuses more on the present issues.

B. Training focuses on preparing employees for current jobs, but development prepares them for other positions in the company.

C. The use of work experiences is higher in training than it is in development.

D. Employee participation in training is voluntary, whereas, in development, employee participation has to be forced.