Scenario 4-1 You Have Recently Been Hired as the HRM for Scribe

question 18

Multiple Choice

Scenario 4-1
You have recently been hired as the HRM for Scribe Engineering, a Canadian software development company. Scribe's product is information systems. The company's environment is competitive and constantly changing. There continues to be an increased demand for customized computer systems that improve the flow of information in a wide range of small Canadian businesses. Due to Scribe's growth in sales, the company is anticipating requiring an increase from 150 to 200 employees. The company requires highly skilled software designers, computer programmers, sales professionals, and support staff. The majority of employees, from younger technical support staff to senior management, stated that work-life balance is important to them and that they want more flexibility in how and when their work gets done. Job demands are changing constantly because of the dynamic environment. There are concerns of sex, age, and family status discrimination with the office administration employees. The CEO stated that Scribe has a few outdated job advertisements, but that the company has never had time to write job descriptions. Managers have expressed concerns that job descriptions are of limited value because positions need to adapt to the high speed of change and that they limit their flexibility in supervising employees' tasks.
-Refer to Scenario 4-1. The technical support job description states "take initiative to resolve customer concerns." What is this an example of?

• A) a job summary
• B) a competency
• C) a job specification
• D) a job responsibility

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Definitions:

Instrumental Learning Theory

A concept in psychology that emphasizes learning through the consequences of our actions, often involving rewards and punishments.

Relational Aggression Theory

A theoretical framework that explains aggressive behavior through the manipulation of social relationships, including actions like exclusion, gossip, or the withdrawal of friendship.

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration and, conversely, that frustration leads to some form of aggression.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalytic theory, emphasizing unconscious processes and childhood experiences.