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Term | Definition |
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Benefits | Advantages or payments employees receive in addition to their wages (e.g., sick time, holiday pay, health insurance ) |
Compensation | Pay or wages for work completed |
Compliance | Fulfilling the requirements of the law |
Employee complaint | An oral or written expression of an employee's dissatisfaction |
Employee safety | Freedom from danger, risk, or injury in the workplace |
Employee-assistance programs | A project organized and sponsored by a company to help its employees |
Exit interview | Discussion with employees who are leaving that ae designed to gain feedback for the business |
Globalization | The rapid ad unimpeded flow of capital, labor, and ideas across national borders |
Human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
Human resource management | The process of planning, staffing, leading, and organizing the employees of the business |
Job description | Explanation of responsibilities and tasks associated with a specific job |
Job specification | Explanation of the skills, knowledge, and characteristics required for a job |
On-boarding activities | Human resources management tasks that must be performed when a new employee joins the company |
On-the-job training | The most common method of training; the employees learns by actually performing the job |
organizational restructuring | a significant change to a business structure or operations |
Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surroundings and are given general information about the company and its policies as well as specific information about their job |
Performance review | A formal assessment of a workers job performance by his/her supervisor that lets the worker know how they doing on the job |
Professional development | Steps that an individual takes to enhance or improve skills or traits that are needed to excel in her/his career/profession |
Recruiting | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
Staffing | A human resources management activity that involves recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orienting, and dealing with job changes for a company's employees |
Strategic management | The process of planning, controlling, and organizing an organization or department |
Strategic planning | Long-range planning (three to five years) for the company as a whole |
Telecommute | To work from a location other than the office |