Laws & Legislation
This U.S. holiday celebrates American workers and is often considered the unofficial end of summer.
What is Labor Day?
This U.S. TV show features HR rep Toby Flenderson, often the target of Michael Scott’s disdain.
What is The Office?
This country is often credited as the birthplace of modern HR practices in the early 20th century.
What is the United States?
"Disagree and Commit" is an example of Pacvue's one of these.
What are core values?
PTO stands for this type of benefit.
What is Paid Time Off?
The term for the legal minimum amount a worker can be paid per hour is called this.
What is minimum wage?
In the show Parks and Recreation, this character serves as HR director for Pawnee.
Who is Donna Meagle? (Trick: The official HR rep is actually Jerry/Garry/Larry, but Donna often acts as the go-to!)
The first recorded “Personnel Department” was created in 1900 at this company, to address worker concerns.
What is the National Cash Register Company (NCR)?
A company’s “mission statement” typically explains this.
What is the organization’s purpose or reason for existing?
DEI stands for this workplace initiative.
What is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Kids under 14 are generally not allowed to have these.
What are jobs?
The movie Up in the Air starring George Clooney revolves around this HR function.
What is employee termination/layoffs?
The first U.S. federal minimum wage was set in this year.
What is 1938 (under FLSA)?
This annual survey is commonly used to measure employee engagement.
What is an employee engagement survey?
SHRM, the largest HR professional organization, stands for this.
What is the Society for Human Resource Management?
This type of pay is given when you work more than 40 hours in a week.
What is overtime pay?
In Friends, this character briefly worked in HR before becoming a masseuse again.
Who is Phoebe Buffay?
This 1978 law was the first to prohibit workplace discrimination against pregnant employees.
What is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act?
Companies that offer flexible hours, wellness programs, and remote work are supporting this employee-focused concept.
What is work-life balance?
KPI is a commonly used performance measurement acronym.
What is Key Performance Indicator?
This type of leave lets you take time off when you’re sick or to care for a family member.
What is sick leave (or family leave)?
This satirical 1999 film portrays a miserable office culture where HR-like policies clash with employees’ frustrations, including TPS reports.
What is Office Space?
This HR milestone happened in 1993, marking the first federal law guaranteeing unpaid family and medical leave.
What is the passing of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
This management theory, popularized by Google, focuses on ambitious, measurable goals to drive performance.
What are OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)?
This HR term refers to the practice of linking employee pay directly to performance or company success: P4P.
What is Pay for Performance?