Selection Process
A letter of introduction to describe why you are a great candidate for a job.
Cover Letter
Working from Home
Telecommute
Leaders who hoard decision making power for themselves and typically issue orders without consulting their followers
Autocratic Leaders
The law that prohibits companies from discriminations against an employee for having a disability.
Americans with Disabilities Act
A strategic planning tool that helps management evaluate an organization in terms of internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats
SWOT analysis
a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
Resume
Payment as a percentage of sales
Commission
Managers who set the overall direction of the firm, articulating a vision and establishing priorities and allocating time money and other resouces
Top Management
gave the Federal Government the authority to set and enforce safety and health standards for most of the country's workers.
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Achieving the goals of an organization through planning organizing leading and controlled organizational resources including people money and time.
Management
involves developing a list of questions beforehand and asking the same questions in the same order to each candidate
Interview
A version of flextime scheduling that allows employees to work a full time number of hours in less than a standard work week
Compressed Workweek
Leaders who share power with their followers. While they still make final decisions, they typically solicit and incorporate input from their followers
Democratic Leaders
signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. It allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to bond with a newborn, newly adopted or newly placed child; care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent; or care for their own serious health condition without fear of losing their jobs
Family Medical Leave Act of 1993
List 3 illegal interview questions
Age, Marital Status, Children, Past Salary
The first step in the training and development process. Designed to introduce employees to the company culture and provide key administrative information
Orientation
List 4 common employee benefits
Health Insurance, Paid Sick Days, Retirement Programs, etc.
Leaders who set objectives for their followers but give them freedom to choose how they will accomplish those goals.
Free Rein Leaders
CT Minimum Wage as of July 1, 2022
$14 / hour
A motivation theory that suggests that human needs fall into a hierarchy and that as each need is met people become motivated to meet the next highest need in the pyramid
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
A specific time frame during which a new hire can prove his or her worth on the job before they become a permanent employee
probationary period
An employer sponsored retirement savings program. A company can help you save for retirement by also matching your contributions.
401K
Span of management refers to the number of people a manager supervises
Span of Control
Illegal for companies to not allow cultural hairstyles at work.
Crown Act
A visual representation of the company's formal strcture
organizational chart