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• The process of finding, developing, and keeping the right people to form a qualified workforce.

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• The vertical and horizontal configuration of departments, authority, and jobs within a company.

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• Purposeful steps taken by an organization to create employment opportunities for minorities and women.

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• The collection of activities that transform inputs into outputs that customers value.

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• Intentional discrimination that occurs when people are purposely not given the same hiring, promotion, or membership opportunities.

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• Subdividing work and workers into separate organizational units responsible for completing particular tasks.

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• The vertical line of authority that clarifies who reports to whom throughout the organization.

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• Differences such as personality and attitudes that are communicated through verbal and nonverbal behaviors and are learned only through extended interaction with others.

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• The assignment of direct authority and responsibility to a subordinate to complete tasks for which the manager is normally responsible.

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• Differences such as age, sex, race/ethnicity, and physical disabilities that are observable, typically unchangeable, and easy to measure.

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• Loss of employees who voluntarily choose to leave the company.

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• The planned elimination of jobs in a company.

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• The number, kind, and variety of tasks that individual workers perform in doing their jobs.

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• Job composed of a smaller part of a larger task or process.

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• The extent to which collective action is required to complete an entire piece of work.

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• The financial and nonfinancial rewards that organizations give employees in exchange for their work.

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• Feeling of intrinsic motivation in which workers perceive their work to have impact and meaning and perceive themselves to be competent and capable of self-determination.

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• The process of assessing how well employees are doing their jobs.

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• A computerized system for gathering, analyzing, storing, and disseminating information related to the HRM process.

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• The ability and authority to make decisions without supervision.

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What is the importance of identifying and establishing clear and defined authority, chain of command, and unit of command?

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• Describe HRM's duty for misconduct in the workplace of a sexual nature.

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• Authority is typically disseminated in two ways: Line Authority and Staff Authority as vital to ensure efficient decision-making and effective communication. From there, how are these two types of authority disseminated, and how much authority rests with whom makes decisions?

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• Once top candidates have been identified and the selection process has begun, what comes next before the interviews actually begin?

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• Reengineering is a fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed that then establishes a need for clear lines of communication. What is this type of vital communication, and what are its three components?

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QUESTION: To enhance work team effectiveness, we can outline the steps involved for success (typically) more effectively. What are those steps, and what are the components of each step? Be specific in your outlining of the steps involved and each steps' components to ensure top marks.

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