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HRM Ch. 11
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Constructive dismissal | the employer makes unilateral changes in the employment contract that are unacceptable to the employee, even though the employee has not been formally terminated. |
| Contractual rights | rights arising out of an employment or union contract. |
| Dismissal | involuntary termination of an employee’s employment. |
| Downward communication | information about various aspects of an organization that is initiated by management and then proceeds down through the hierarchy. |
| Employee rights | rights belonging to the employee guaranteed by law, contract, or hiring conditions that relate to the employees’ working conditions. |
| Employment contract | a contract defining the terms of the employment relationship for both the employer and the employee. |
| Fair treatment programs | employer programs that are aimed by ensuring all employees are treated fairly, generally by providing formalized, well-documented, and highly publicized vehicles through which employees can appeal any eligible issues. |
| Group termination laws | laws that require an employer who is terminating a large group of employees to give them more notice than is required for termination of an individual employee. |
| Insubordination | willful disregard or disobedience of the boss’s authority or legitimate orders; criticizing the boss in public. |
| Just cause | a legally defensible reason or cause |
| Layoff | The temporary withdrawal of employees from workers for economic or business reasons. |
| Management-by-walking-around | managers leave their offices to learn from tohers in the organization to address questions by having casual, face-to-face conversations. |
| Management rights | managements right to run the business and make those decisions necessary to do so. |
| Open door program | a fair treatment program that gives every employee the right to appeal the actions of his or her supervisor by taking the concern of successively higher levels of management. |
| Outplacement counselling | a systematic process by which a terminated person is trained and counselled in the techniques of self-appraisal and securing a new position. |
| Restrictive covenant | a clause added to an employment contract to restrict employees’ activities once they are no longer employed by the company. |
| Statutory rights | rights established by legislation. |
| Termination interview | the interview in which an employee is informed that he or she has been dismissed. |
| Upward communication | communication that begins with employees and proceeds up through the organization as a way of informing/influencing management. |
| Wrongful dismissal | an employee dismissal that does not comply with the law or does not comply with a written or implied contractual arrangement. |
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