Extent to which a measurement instrument provides consistent results.
What is ... Reliability!
Plan of action for accomplishing an organization’s overall and long-range goals.
What is ... Strategy!
Act of replacing employees leaving an organization; attrition or loss of employees.
What is ... Turnover!
Voluntary group for employees who share a particular diversity dimension (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.); also known as affinity group or network group.
What is ... ERG!
Employee Resource Group (ERG)
Status of growing interconnectedness and interdependency among countries, people, markets, and organizations worldwide.
What is ... Globalization!
Extent to which a measurement instrument measures what it is intended to measure.
What is ... Validity!
Description of what an organization hopes to attain and accomplish in the future, which guides it toward that defined direction.
What is ... Vision Statement!
Process of investigating a decision thoroughly before finalizing it to identify all potential factors that could affect the positive and negative impacts of the decision.
What is ... Due Diligence!
Quantifiable measures of performance used to gauge progress toward strategic objectives or agreed standards of performance.
What is ... KPI!
Key Performance Indicator(s) (KPI)
Employees who work outside their home countries.
What are ... Assignees!
Average of data that adds factors to reflect the importance of different values.
What is ... Weighted Mean!
Actions, processes, or results that are needed to deliver a desired value.
What are ... Value Drivers!
Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for its alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; also known as co-employment.
What is ... Joint-Employment!
Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities.
What is ... ERP!
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Extent to which diversity is embraced in management of people, products/services, and branding.
What is ... Identity Alignment!
Data-sorting technique in which group members add related ideas and indicate logical connections, eventually grouping similar ideas.
What is ... Mind Mapping!
Scanning process that searches for environmental forces in Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental categories.
What is ... PESTLE analysis!
Termination of employment of individual employees or groups of employees for reasons other than performance, for example, economic necessity or restructuring; also known as reduction in force (RIF).
What is ... Downsizing!
Technique in which participants each suggest ideas through a series of rounds and then discuss the items, eliminate redundancies and irrelevancies, and agree on the importance of the remaining items.
What is ... NGT!
Nominal group technique (NGT)
Extent to which underlying operations such as IT, finance, or HR integrate across locations.
What is ... Process Alignment!
Comparing the sizes of two variables to produce an index or percentage; commonly used to analyze financial statements.
What is ... Ratio Analysis!
Method for assessment of an organization’s strategic capabilities through use of the environmental scanning process, by which internal and external factors affecting achievement of organizational goals are identified and considered.
What is ... SWOT analysis!
Use of information from past and present to predict future conditions.
What are ... Judgmental Forecasts!
Type of analysis in which a team determines critical characteristics of a successful decision and then uses a matrix to score each alternative and compare results.
What is ... MCDA!
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
Process by which an organization moves an employee out of an international assignment; can involve moving back to the home country, moving to a different global location, or moving to a new location or position in the current host country.
What is ... Redeployment!