Performance appraisal is the evaluation of an employee’s current and potential levels of performance within a firm.

The primary disadvantage of internal recruiting is that promoting a current employee leaves another position to be filled, possibly meaning that two employees must be trained instead of one.

A work schedule that allows employees to work ten hours a day for four days instead of eight hours a day for five days is an example of a flextime system.

Ford and Xerox are two companies that have begun moving away from strict job specialization to alleviate employee motivation problems. Each company has adopted a job design alternative that involves workers in a wider variety of tasks. The method they have employed is known as job

An action directly following a particular behavior is called a(n)

A situation in which people do most of the work is called

A computerized system that integrates production planning and inventory control is called

When sales drop each summer at Vail Mountain Resorts, a high-quality destination ski area, the resort owners temporarily have too many employees to service the reduced number of tourists that enjoy the area during the warmer months. In this situation, the resorts most likely would

Carol was recently fired from her job as a purchaser for a grocery store. She was told the reason for her dismissal was the almost continuous rotting of large amounts of produce and meat while in the stockroom awaiting sale in the store. Which objective of purchasing did Carol fail to accomplish?

A firm attempting to reduce the size of its workforce may use several approaches. The approach most likely to be saved as a last resort is