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ADDIE model

Analysis
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation

Analysis Stage

A detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.

All info about a project is gathered.

Who is the audience? What is the timeline? Delivery Options?

Design Stage

The design phase identifies the behaviors participants will practice at the end of the program. The goals state the purpose and intent of the program, while the objectives are the behavioral results expected from the program.

Development Stage

A sample is created and presented to the client. Design course materials. Run through what you created with a outsider.

Implementation Stage

Get ready to implement the product. Train the instructor, prepare the learner (for example - where do you go to take the class) and arrange the learning space.

Evaluation Stage

the consumer considers whether trying the new product makes sense. Typically a survey is done to those who are trying out the new product.

Trait Engagement

They are naturally more engaged than others. The markings of individuals with high trait employee engagement include:

- Positive views of life and work
- Proactive personality
- Positive Affect

State engagement

Employees can feel more (or less) engaged in their work depending on the circumstances from day to day. Here, the work and its conditions contribute to the feelings of engagement. People describe these feelings as "being in the zone" or experiencing moments of "flow" as they work.

Behavioral Engagement

is evident in the effort of employees put into their jobs, which leads to greater value, creating higher performance than from their less engaged counterparts. Trait and State engagement are examples of this.

Transactional engagement

employees appear engaged, for example, by working longer hours and even responding as such in engagement surveys, but do not actually feel or think in an engaged way.

Which task is vital when assessing strategic objectives?

Comparing the outcome of strategic initiatives to outlined metrics

During the evaluation phase of strategic planning, strategic objectives are assessed to determine if the results are in line with the metrics that were defined at the start of strategic planning.

Which HR task is typically required by a multidomestic corporation?

Coordinating HR activities between headquarters and the international offices

What skill could most improve an HR function's ability to manage change?

Mastery of complex communication means

Hersey-Blanchard's situational leadership theory

Leaders have the flexibility and range of skills to adapt their leadership behavior.

Over time individuals require a different type of direction and leadership.

Organizational Structure

the vertical and horizontal configuration of departments, authority, and jobs within a company

Functional Organization

A functional organization is organized according to a linear process, for example, design, supplies, procurement, manufacturing, sales and marketing, distribution, and customer service.

Geographic Organization Structure

Organizational structure that is decentralized, that is organized by regions, and that places responsibility for all business functions in the executives for the regions. The regions report to the CEO.

Hybrid Structure

A matrix or hybrid structure is an organizational model that combines two or more reporting structures. It's best suited for work environments that are dynamic, as hybrid structures can shift from project to project.

Product Organizational Structure

Split up by product type. Specialized people, but not cost-efficient

The Disapora

the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland - this may happen to find a better economy

Demographic dichotomy

(Emerging Economies shift)
Is when a younger workforce emerges in emerging economies. This is different to an aged workforce seen in developed countries. Creates educational skill divides and deficits.

Risk Management

All efforts designed to preserve assets and earning power associated with a business.

Risk Control

Measure taken to reduce the probability or severity of a threat

Vicarious Liability

Legal responsibility placed on one person for the acts of another.

How should HR use the information contained in other organizations' annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability reports when first devising their organization's sustainability strategy?

Adapt general principles and guidelines to the organization's strategic focus.

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

A business's concern for the welfare of society.

Succession Planning

the process of identifying and tracking high-potential employees who will be able to fill top management positions when they become vacant

works council

Works councils are composed of workers and management representatives. Their purpose is to promote communication between management and employees on issues that affect workers' interests.

Constructive Discipline

Constructive discipline gives the employee an opportunity to understand expectations and change behavior.

SWOT analysis

strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats

Environmental Scan

an analysis of outside influences that may have an impact on an organization

What would be an example of noise in the communication model?

A speaker uses technical abbreviations that the listener does not know.

What is the impact that a service level agreement has when an organization moves from licensing software to software as a service (SaaS)?

The organization will not need to implement or customize software.

Griggs v. Duke Power

U.S. case that set the standard for determining whether discrimination based on disparate impact exists.

disparate inpact

indicates that the policy eliminates more members of protected classes than members of the majority

What is the primary reason for developing workforce diversity programs?

Enhance productivity

What emotional challenge can HR help retained employees confront after a mass reduction in workforce?

Diminished job security

Demand Analysis

Considers the model organization of the future and its human capital needs. For example; The determination that 20 new employees are needed to achieve the organizational strategy for growth

Solution Analysis

What can we afford? How will we get what we need?

Gap Analysis

a marketing research method that measures the difference between a customer's expectation of a service quality and what actually occurred

Supply Analysis

The skill mix in the organization as it exists now and the future needs

Weighted Mean

the mean found by multiplying each value by its corresponding weight and dividing by the sum of the weights. A weighted mean is more informative because it can take into account different costs of living in each location.

According to the sender-receiver communication model (the basic communication model), what is appropriate feedback to a message from a stakeholder who expresses disagreement in a meeting with something you have said?

Restate your position on the same issue in a new way.

low-context culture

In low-context cultures, people react to what is explicitly communicated so that those coming into the environment know how to behave.

high-context culture

people rely heavily on situational cues for meaning when communicating with others

Which is a good practice for implementing a code of conduct?

Talk with members of the organization to better understand ethical challenges and compliance requirements.

Because a code of conduct must address the risks and compliance requirements specific to an organization, it is a good practice to include discussions with a broad representation of the organization's members before drafting a code. While the organization's values are considered in drafting the code, they are not the basis of the code. While the code must be reviewed regularly, constantly revising it can lead to employees' not knowing the ethical mandates.

Example that best demonstrates the development phase of the employee life cycle?

A manager and an employee are working together to develop objectives and goals for the employee to attain.

IPO Model

inputs, processes, outcomes

IPO Model: Inputs

Inputs in the IPO model include data about conditions (past, current, and projected). Turnover data that reflects an increasing loss of talent is an internal constraint that may impact an organization's ability to meet its targets.

IPO Model: Processes

Processes are tools and skills that can be applied to gain meaning from the inputs. Exit and stay interviews that search for causes and cross-functional brainstorming teams that come up with possible solutions would be considered processes in the model.

IPO Model: Outcome/Output

Outputs are what the organization does with the wisdom it has gained. This could include new policies or processes, such as flexible scheduling.

What cultural layer is exemplified by the pasta dishes that are unique to Italy?

Artifacts and Products

Sustainability sweet spot

The overlapping area of the triple bottom line perspectives

turnover costs

Costs associated with separation, vacancy, replacement and training

Days to Fill

the time it takes to hire someone
the average number of days it takes to hire someone for open job positions

Which HR metric provides an indication of the efficiency of the recruiting process?

Days to Fill

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities.

Four branches of emotional intelligence

1. Perceiving emotions
2. Using emotions to facilitate thought
3. Understanding emotions
4. Managing emotions

Perceiving emotions

recognizing them in faces, music, and stories

Using emotions to facilitate thought

he ability to capitalize on feelings to promote and inform decision making, problem solving, and other cognitive activities?

understanding emotions

to predict them and how they change and blend

managing emotions

knowing how to express them in varied situations

What is the first step in preparing for an HR audit?

Determine the scope and type of audit.

An international organization is seeking to implement a wellness program to improve the health and well-being of its employees. Which is the best way to encourage employee participation?

Provide discounts on gym memberships at gyms located near applicable organizational locations.

arbitration process

submission, hearing, award

binding decision

final decision

What is the outcome of the arbitration process?

Binding Decision

A large multinational organization is implementing an organization-wide diversity and inclusion initiative. Which practice will help the initiative succeed?

Leave implementation to managers at the local and national levels, so the policy can be adjusted for local laws, norms, and traditions.

Gardenswartz and Rowe discuss which four dimensions of diversity?

Organizational, external, internal, and personality

How does replacement planning differ from succession planning?

Replacement planning ensures the continuity of business operations; succession planning provides deep bench strength throughout the organization.

Cost Leadership

the positioning strategy of producing a product or service of acceptable quality at consistently lower production costs than competitors can, so that the firm can offer the product or service at the lowest price in the industry

PESTLE analysis

Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental

Which is the best approach that HR should recommend leaders undertake after the results of an annual employee engagement survey show a significant decline?

Focus groups

Which activity is part of the assessment and selection step of the global assignment process?

Development of data-gathering instruments

Global assignments based on business strategy

domestic, multi-domestic, multinational, global

Regiocentric

the region becomes the relevant geographic unit

Ethnocentric

based on the attitude that one's group is superior

Polycentric

international recruitment method wherein the HR recruits the personnel for the international businesses. In Polycentric Approach, the nationals of the host country are recruited for the managerial positions to carry out the operations of the subsidiary company.

The creation of a global compensation and benefits strategy that ignores local differences in culture is most likely to occur in what approach to global management?

Ethnocentric

Which is a reason why an organization might be pushed into global expansion?

Need for new customers

Identity alignment

Extent to which diversity is embraced in management of people, products/services, and branding.

Onshoring

Relocation of business processes or production to a lower-cost location inside the same country as the business.

Reverse innovation

Innovations created for or by emerging-economy markets and then imported to developed-economy markets.

Outsourcing

A decision by a corporation to turn over much of the responsibility for production to independent suppliers.

Assignees

Employees who work outside their home countries.

Offshoring

the relocation of business processes and services to a lower-cost foreign location particularly white-collar, technical, professional, and clerical services

Process alignment

Extent to which underlying operations such as IT, finance, or HR integrate across locations.

Multinational enterprises (MNEs)

Organizations with operations in multiple countries.

Global integration

Globalization strategy that emphasizes consistency of approach, standardization of processes, and a common corporate culture across global operations.

Near-shoring

Practice of contracting a part of business processes or production to an external company in a country that is relatively close (e.g., within the same own region).

Repatriation

the act of returning to the country of origin

local responsiveness

adapting to the needs of local markets and allows subsidiaries to develop unique products, structures, and systems.

Redeployment

Process by which an organization moves an employee out of an international assignment; can involve moving back to the home country, moving to a different global location, or moving to a new location or position in the current host country.

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