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Human Resource Management (HRM) The Management Function Concerned with getting, motivating, and keeping competent employees
Affirmative Action Program Programs that ensure that decisions and practices enhance the employment, upgrading, and retention of members of protected groups,
Work Councils Groups of nominated or elected employees who must be consulted when management makes decisions involving personnel.
Board Representatives Employees who sit on a company's board of directors and represent the interest of employees.
Employment Planning The process by which managers ensure the have the right numbers and kinds of people in the right places at the right time.
Human Resource Inventory A report listing important information about employees such as name, education, training, skills, languages spoken, and so forth.
Job Analysis An assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to preform them.
Job Description A written statement that describes a job.
Job Specification A written statement of the minimum qualifications that a person must possess to preform a given job successfully.
Recruitment Locating, identifying, and attracting capable applicants.
Selection Process Screening job applicants to ensure that the most appropriate candidates are hired.
Reliability The degree to which a selection device measures the same thing consistently.
Validilty Then proven relationship between a selection device and some relevant criterion.
Performance-Simulation Tests Selection devices based on actual job behaviors.
Realistic Job Preview A preview of a job that provides both positive and negative information about the job and the company.
Orientation Introducing a new employee to the job and the organization.
Employee Training A learning experience that seeks a relatively permanent change in employees by improving their ability to preform on the job.
Performance Management System A system that establishes performance standards that are used to evaluate employee performance.
360-Degree Appraisal An appraisal device that seeks feedback from a variety of sources for the person being rated.
Discipline Actions taken by a manager to enforce an organization's standards and regulations.
Employee Counseling A process designed to help employees overcome performance-related problems.
Compensation Administration The process of determining a cost-effective pay structure that will attract and retain employees, provide an incentive for them to work hard, and ensure that pay levels will be perceived as fair.
Skill-Based Pay A pay system that rewards employees for the job skills they demonstrate.
Variable Pay A pay system in which an individual's compensation is contingent on performance.
Employee Benefits Non-financial rewards designed to enrich employees' lives.
Downsizing The planned elimination of jobs in an organization.
Layoff-Survivor Sickness A set attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of employees who survive layoff.
Sexual Harassment Any unwanted action or activity of a sexual nature that explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, performance, or work environment.
Workplace Spirituality A spiritual culture where organizational values promote a sense of purpose through meaningful work that takes place in context of community.
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