AFM131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Human Resource Management, Contingent Work, Job Analysis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM131
• Professor: Mohsin Bashir

Document Summary

Underemployed workers: those who have more skills or knowledge than their current jobs require or those with part-time jobs who want to work full-time. Job analysis: a study of what is done by employees who hold various job titles. Job description: a summary of the objectives of a job, the type of work to be done, the responsibilities and duties, the working conditions, and the relationship of the job to other functions. Job specifications: a written summary of the minimum qualifications required of workers to do a particular job. Recruitment: the set of activities used to obtain a sufficient number of the right people at the right time. Internal sources: include employees who are already within the firm (and may be transferred or promoted) and employees who can recommend others to hire: using internal resources is less expensive than recruiting from outside.