business 100 chapter 9

all the activites involved in aquireing, developing, and maintaining an organizations human resources

the development of strategies to meet a firms furure human resource needs

a list of key personel and there possible replacements within a firm

a computerized data bank containing information on the skills and experience of all present employees

differences among people in a workforce owing to race, ethnicity, and gender

a systematic rocedure for studying jobs to determine their various elements and requirements

a list of the elements that make up a particular job

a list of specifications required to preform a particular job

a collection of data prevailing wage rates within an industry or a geographic area

the policies and strategies that determine employee compensation

the process of determining the relative worth of the various jobs within a firm

a concept that seeks equal compensation for jobs requireing about the same level of education, training, and skills

compensation plan whereby an employee recieves a predetermined amount of benifit dollars to spend on a package of benfits he or she has selected to meet individual needs

the process of preparing managers and other professionals to assume oncreased responsibility in both present and future positions

the evaluation of employees' current and potential levels of preformance to allow mangers to make objective human resources decisions