HR Chapter 5: Planning and recruiting human resources

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Forecasting

top portion, HR professionals tries to determine the supply of and demand of various types of human resources

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trend analysis

constructing and applying statistical models that predict labor demand for the next year based off statistics from the previous year

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leading indicators

objective measures that accurately predict future labor demand

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Transitional matrix

chart that lists job categories held in one period and shows the porportion of employees in each of those job categories in a future period

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Downsizing

planned elimination of large numbers of personnel with the goal of enhancing the organizations competitiveness

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Outsourcing

contracting with another organization to perform a broad set of services

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recruiting

encouraging qualified people to apply for jobs

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selection

determining which canidates would be the best fit

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Personnel policies

its decisions about how it will carry out human resource management

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due process policies

formally lay out the steps an employee may take to appeal an employers decision to terminate that employee

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Direct applicants

people who apply for a vacancy without prompting from the organization

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Referrals

people who apply because someone in the organization prompted them to do so

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Nepotism

hiring of relatives

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Realistic job previews

background information about jobs positive and negative qualities

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yield ratios

expresses the percentage of applicants who successfully move from one stage or recruitment to another

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