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Business essentials
302 People Pusher key terms
Question | Answer |
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Benefits | Advantages or payments employees receive in addition to their wages |
Compensation | Pay or wages for work completed |
Compliance | Fulfilling the requirement 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 | Discussions with 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, planning, staffing, leading, and organizing the employee of 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 employee learns by actually performing the job |
Organizational restructuring | A significant change to a business's structure or operations |
Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employee learns by actually performing the job |
Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outside organizations/consultants to accomplish business objectives or perform primary business activities |
Performance review | A formal assessment of worker's job performance by his/her supervisor 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 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 and organization or department |
Strategic planning | Long-range planning[three to five years] for the company as a whole |
Telecommute | To work from location other than the office |