Your boss tells you that your services are no longer needed at the company but he doesn’t give you any reason. As long as it doesn’t violate the law, a contract, or due process, under what concept can he do this, if any?

Finding and developing a pool of qualified applicants who are interested in working for the organization.

Using a numbered list, list the 5 ways to have a competitive advantage through employees as shown in the slides (10 pts)

The term for a set of forces that causes people to behave in certain ways and is relatively unchanging over your lifetime. Determines individual performance and decisions. 

You always volunteer to take on extra tasks even though it is not required in the job description such as showing up early and taking on extra tasks because you know that it will be beneficial to the organization.  What type of activity is this?

A list of the observable major job elements, tasks, duties, and responsibilities for a particular job. Ex: Create Syllabi, lecture, grade papers

What do you call the prevailing wage rate for a given job in a given labor market. Based on cost of living, competitiveness, civil service, location

Using a numbered list, List the 3 causes of job dissatisfaction as shown in class (6 pts)

 You were just hired at ACE Manufacturing and you can choose work from 7am until 4pm or from 8am until 5pm. What type of alternative work arrangement is this?

 Maslow’s theory says our needs are ___________, This means our needs that are capable of motivating behavior at any given time. Ex: physiological needs, if we’re starving, we don’t worry about anything else.