WGU Managing Human Capital - C202 - chap7
Questions and Verified Answers
Training Correct Answer: formal and informal activities to
improve competencies relevant to an employee's or workgroup's current job
Learning style Correct Answer: how people differ in how we process
information when problem solving or
learning
sensory modality Correct Answer: a system that interacts with the
environment through one of the basic senses
Training evaluation Correct Answer: systematically collecting the
information necessary to make
effective decisions about adopting,
improving, valuing, and continuing an instructional activity or set of activities
Training transfer Correct Answer: effectively using what is learned in
training back on the job
closed skills Correct Answer: skills performed similarly or exactly like they are taught in training
open skills Correct Answer: sets of principles that can be applied in many different ways
Self-management strategies Correct Answer: efforts to control one's motivation,
emotions, and decision making to
, enhance the application of learned
capabilities to the job
Reinforcers Correct Answer: anything that makes a behavior more likely to happen again
Orientation Correct Answer: training activities to help new hires fit in as organizational members
Socialization Correct Answer: a long-term process of planned and
unplanned, formal and informal
activities and experiences through
which an individual acquires the
attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge
needed to successfully participate as an organizational member
Development Correct Answer: focuses on developing competencies that an employee or workgroup is
expected to need in the future
Collective socialization Correct Answer: newcomers go through a common set of experiences as a group
Individual socialization Correct Answer: newcomers are socialized individually as in an apprenticeship
Formal socialization Correct Answer: structured socialization using
specifically designed activities and
materials away from the work setting
Informal socialization Correct Answer: unstructured, on-the-job socialization done by coworkers
Sequential socialization Correct Answer: the degree to which socialization
follows a specific sequence of steps
Questions and Verified Answers
Training Correct Answer: formal and informal activities to
improve competencies relevant to an employee's or workgroup's current job
Learning style Correct Answer: how people differ in how we process
information when problem solving or
learning
sensory modality Correct Answer: a system that interacts with the
environment through one of the basic senses
Training evaluation Correct Answer: systematically collecting the
information necessary to make
effective decisions about adopting,
improving, valuing, and continuing an instructional activity or set of activities
Training transfer Correct Answer: effectively using what is learned in
training back on the job
closed skills Correct Answer: skills performed similarly or exactly like they are taught in training
open skills Correct Answer: sets of principles that can be applied in many different ways
Self-management strategies Correct Answer: efforts to control one's motivation,
emotions, and decision making to
, enhance the application of learned
capabilities to the job
Reinforcers Correct Answer: anything that makes a behavior more likely to happen again
Orientation Correct Answer: training activities to help new hires fit in as organizational members
Socialization Correct Answer: a long-term process of planned and
unplanned, formal and informal
activities and experiences through
which an individual acquires the
attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge
needed to successfully participate as an organizational member
Development Correct Answer: focuses on developing competencies that an employee or workgroup is
expected to need in the future
Collective socialization Correct Answer: newcomers go through a common set of experiences as a group
Individual socialization Correct Answer: newcomers are socialized individually as in an apprenticeship
Formal socialization Correct Answer: structured socialization using
specifically designed activities and
materials away from the work setting
Informal socialization Correct Answer: unstructured, on-the-job socialization done by coworkers
Sequential socialization Correct Answer: the degree to which socialization
follows a specific sequence of steps
