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Vocabulary / key term - By Ian McGonigal

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Strategic planning   Procedures for making decisions about the organization's long-term goals and strategies.  
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Human resources planning   The process of anticipating and providing for the movement of people into, within, and out of an organization.  
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Strategic human resources management   The pattern of human resources deployments and activities that enable and organization to achieve it strategic goals.  
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Mission   The basic purpose of the organization as well as it's scope of operations  
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Strategic vision   A statement about where the company is going and what it can begome in the future; clarifies the longterm direction of the company and its strategic intent.  
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Core values   The strong and enduring beliefs and principles that the company uses as a foundation for its decision.  
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Enviromental scannin   Systematic monitoring of the major external forces influencing the organization.  
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Cultural audits   Audits of the culture and quality of work life in an organization.  
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Core competencies   Intergrated knowledge sets within an organization that distinguish it from its competitors and delvier value to customers.  
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Trend analysis   A quantitive approach to forecasting labor demand based on an organizational index such as sales.  
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Management forecasts   The opinions (jusdgements) of supervisors, department managers, experts, or other knowledgeable about the organization's future employment needs.  
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Staffing tables   Graphic representations of all organizational jobs, along with the numbers of employees currently occupying those jobs and future employment requirements.  
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Markov analysis   A method for tracking the pattern of employee movements through various jobs.  
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Skill inventories   Files of personnel educatio, experience, interests, skills, and so on that allow managers to quickly match job openings with employee backgrounds.  
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Replacement charts   Listings of current hob holders and people who are potential replacements in an opening occurs.  
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Succession planning   The process of identifying, developing, and tracking key individuals for executive positions.  
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SWOT analysis   A comparison of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for strategy formulation purposes.  
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Value creation   What the firm adds to product or service by virtue of making it; the amount of benifits provided by the product or service once the costs of making it are subtracted.  
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Benchmarking   The process of comparing the organization's processes and practices with those of other companies  
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Balanced scorecard   A measurement framework that helps managers translate strategic goals into operational objectives.  
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Organizational capability   The capacity of the organization to act and change in pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage.  
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Five forces framework   Suppliers, new entrants, customers, substitutes, rival firms.  
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Organizations can acheive competitive advantage through people if they mee these criteria   The resources must be valuable, rare, difficult to imitate, organizaed.  
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The 7-S model   Structure, system, shared values, style, staff, skills, strategy.  
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