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Business Activities
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | Discussions wit employees who are leaving that are designed to gain feedback for the business |
| Globalization | The rapid and unimpeded flow of capital, labor, and ideas across national borders |
| Human resources | People who work to produce goods and services |
| Human resources 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 specifications | Explanation of skills, knowledge, and characteristics required for a job |
| On-boarding activities | Human resources management tasks that must be preformed when a new employee joins the company (e.g., orientation and paperwork) |
| On-the-job training | The most common method of training ; the employee learns by actually preforming the job |
| Organizational Restructuring | The most common method of training; the employee learns by actually preforming job |
| Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surroundings and are given general information about their jobs |
| Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from the outside organizations/consultants to accomplish business objectives or preform primary business activities |
| Performance review | A formal assessment of a worker's job performance by his/her supervisor that lets the worker know s/he is doing on the job |
| Professionals development | Steps that an individual takes to enhance or improve skills or traits that are needed to excel in her/his career/professions |
| Recruiting | seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
| Staffing | A human resources management activity that involves recruiting interviews, hiring, orienting, |