EI-036 (Employee Relations)
This term refers to the process of communication between an employer and an employee to maintain a positive and productive working environment.
What is Employee Relations
This three-letter acronym refers to the high-level plan that aligns human resources management with the overall goals of the business.
What is SHRM
This federal agency is responsible for ensuring safe and healthful working conditions by setting and enforcing standards.
What is OSHA
This is the most common form of training, where an employee learns the requirements of their role while actually performing the work.
What is On-the-Job Training
Established in 1938, this major act introduced the federal minimum wage and overtime pay requirements.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act
This specific type of interview is conducted when an employee leaves a company to gain insight into the organization's strengths and weaknesses.
What is an Exit Interview?
This analysis tool is used by HR to identify internal Strengths and Weaknesses, as well as external Opportunities and Threats
What is a SWOT Analysis
These documents, which must be accessible to employees, provide detailed information on chemicals used in the workplace, including hazards and first-aid measures.
What are Safety Data Sheets
This popular five-stage instructional design model stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
What is the ADDIE Model?
his act prohibits employers from paying different wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment.
What is the Equal Pay Act
In the context of conflict resolution, this is the voluntary process where a neutral third party helps two disputing parties reach a mutually acceptable agreement.
What is Mediation
This metric measures the total cost associated with hiring a new employee, including advertising, agency fees, and onboarding.
What is Cost-Per-Hire
This field of study focuses on designing the workplace and tools to fit the capabilities and limitations of the human body.
What is Ergonomics
his developmental practice involves a more experienced individual providing guidance and feedback to a less experienced employee over a long period.
What is Mentoring?
This 1993 law allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act
This legal doctrine, widely recognized in the U.S., suggests that an employer can dismiss an employee for any reason, and an employee can leave for any reason, without warning.
What is Employment-at-Will
This strategic process involves identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the future.
What is Succession Planning
This type of insurance provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for the relinquishment of the employee's right to sue.
What is Workers' Compensation?
This level of the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model measures the extent to which participants changed their behavior back on the job after training.
What is Level 3
This act sets minimum standards for most retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans.
What is ERISA
This formal process is used when a unionized employee believes the collective bargaining agreement has been violated by the employer.
What is a Grievance Procedure
This term describes the gap between the current state of the workforce and the future needs of the organization.
What is a Workforce Gap Analysis
This specific OSHA standard requires employers to inform employees about the hazardous chemicals they are exposed to and provide appropriate training.
What is the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)?
This term describes the process of moving an employee through a variety of assignments to provide them with a broader range of experience and skills.
What is Job Rotation?
This 2009 legislation amended the Civil Rights Act to clarify that each paycheck that delivers discriminatory compensation is a new violation of the law.
What is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act