HR Exam Prep

Basic assumptions about the role of government in business and society, including the desireability of a welfare state with a key interventionist role for the government.

Variety of work-related assumptions and values including the role of work in a person's life and the role of women and diverse groups in organizations.

The automatically controlled operation of a process, system, or equipment by mechanical or electronic devices.

Human resource practitioner, formally accredited to practise who reflects a threshold professional level of practice.

An organizational strategy that relies on highly skilled contract labour to supply the needed specialized by hiring them on a "as-needed" basis or retaining them on an "on-call" basis.

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An organizational strategy whose focus is on achieving labour efficiencies through control over labour costs, use of temporary or contingent workforce and maximum control over processes and using it as a key compettiive weapon.

A major technological change allowing the processing of vast amounst of data at great speeds, enabling organizations to improve efficiency, repsonsiveness, and flexibility in operations.

Freelancers (self-employed, temporary or leased employees) who are not part of regular workfroce and are paid on a project completion basis.

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Canadian ideal of encouraging each ethnic, racial, and social group to maintain its own cultural heritage, forming a national mosaic of different cultures.

Challenges facing a firm's decision makers because of cultural differences among employees or changes in core cultural or social values occurring at the larger societal level.

Members of occupations (e.g., most clerical occupations) that use, transmit or manipulate symbolic inforamtion created by knowledge workers.

Change in the demographics of the labour force (e.g., education levels, age levels, participation rates) that occur slowly and are usually known in advance.

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