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302 People Pusher
Objective 302
Term | Definition |
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Benifits | Advantages or payments employees receive in addition to thier 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 dissatisfacation |
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 with employees who are leaveing that are designed to gain feedback for the business |
Globalization | The rapid and unimpeded flow capitial, labor, and ideas acoss national borders |
Human resources | People 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 responsibilites and tasks associated with a specific job |
Job specification | Explantaion of the skills, knowledge, and characteristics required for a job |
On-boarding activites | Human resources managment 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 employees learns by actually preforming the job |
Organiazation restructuring | A significant change to a business's structure or operations (e.g., merger, acqusition, downsizing) |
Oreintation | Job prearation or induction training in which new employees are aquainted with thier surrounding and are given general information abou the company and its policies as well as specific information about thier jobs |
Outsourcing | Aquiring assistance from outside orginazations/consulants to accomplish business objectives or preform primary business activities |
Preformance review | A formal assessment of a worker's job preformance by his/her supervisior that lets the worker know how s/he is doing on the job |
Professional development | Steps that an individual takes to enhance or improve skills or traits that are needed to excel in his/her carrear/profession |
Recruting | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
Staffing | A human resources management activity that involves recruting, interviewing, hiring, orienting, and dealing with job changes for a company's employees |
Strategic management | The process of planning, controlling, and organizing an orginazation 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 |