Human Resource Basics
This is the process of hiring, developing, motivating, and evaluating employees to achieve company goals.
What is Human Resource Management (HRM)?
The attempt to find and attract qualified job applicants.
What is Recruitment?
Activities that improve employee knowledge and skills.
What is Training and Development?
This 1964 law prohibits discrimination in employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Additional pay for reaching a specific goal.
What is Incentive Pay?
An organization that represents workers in dealing with management.
What is a Labor Union?
The process of creating a strategy to meet current and future employee needs
What is Human Resource Planning?
The process of determining which applicants are qualified for the job.
What is Selection?
On-the-job training where experienced workers guide less experienced employees.
What is Mentoring?
This agency processes discrimination complaints.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
Evaluating employee performance compared with expected standards.
What is a Performance Appraisal?
Negotiating wages, benefits, and working conditions between unions and employers.
What is Collective Bargaining?
A study of the tasks required to do a particular job well.
What is Job Analysis?
An in-depth discussion about an applicant’s skills, experience, and education.
What is a Selection Interview?
A form of training combining job instruction with classroom learning.
What is an Apprenticeship?
Programs designed to increase opportunities for women and minorities.
What are Affirmative Action Programs?
Government payments to workers who lose their jobs.
What is Unemployment Compensation?
A formal complaint by a union worker against management.
What is a Grievance?
A summary of job tasks, duties, responsibilities, and working conditions.
What is a Job Description?
An event where companies and job seekers meet to discuss employment opportunities.
What is a Job Fair?
Moving employees between different jobs so they learn multiple skills.
What is Job Rotation?
The federal agency that sets workplace safety standards.
What is OSHA?
Pay for lost work time due to job-related injuries.
What is Workers’ Compensation?
A negotiation process where a third party helps resolve disputes but does not make the final decision.
What is Mediation?
A list of skills, knowledge, and abilities needed for a job.
What is a Job Specification?
Presenting a positive image of the company to attract applicants.
What is Recruitment Branding?
A training method using mock equipment or environments.
What is Simulation?
Groups legally protected from employment discrimination.
What are Protected Classes?
Identifying employees who can fill future leadership positions.
What is Succession Planning?
A process where a third party makes a final binding decision in a dispute.
What is Arbitration?