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An involuntary separation of the employee from employment for a temporary or indefinite period, through no fault of the employee.
Layoff
The way a person lives his or her life (including geographic location, type of home, method of transportation, and social situations).
Lifestyle
Something that combines qualities or elements of different things; to give up something to reach a decision.
Compromise
The typical manner in which a person makes a decision.
Decision Making Style
To become different or make something/somebody different.
Change
Ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.
Lifelong Learning
Time free from every-day job responsibilities, during which a person can pursue personal interests and hobbies.
Leisure
The various parts of one’s life; roles played by individuals as they progress through developmental stages and their career (such as citizen, parent, spouse, worker, etc.).
Life Roles
An oversimplified and distorted belief about a person or group.
Stereotype
A choice limited to one of two possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action.
Alternatives
Allows employees of government agencies and companies with more than fifty employees to take up to three months of unpaid leave during or after a pregnancy.
Family Medical Leave Act
A series of activities performed regularly.
Routine
A system of working that allows an employee to choose, within limits, the hours for starting and leaving work each day.
Flex Time
A lot of time and energy are spent, but a choice is not made.
Painful Decision Making
Unwilling to adhere to the proper rules of conduct, not following accepted rules of behavior (doing the wrong thing).
Unethical
A young adult who returns to live at his or her family home, especially for financial reasons.
Boomerang Child
A tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly
Bias
Pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive.
Characteristics
Working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one’s place of employment.
Telecommuting
Notice of termination
Pink Slip
Indirect and non-cash compensation in addition to their normal wages or salaries paid to an employee. Some benefits are mandated by law (such as social security, unemployment compensation, and workers compensation), other vary from firm to firm or industry to industry (such as health insurance, life insurance, medical plan, paid vacation, pension and gratuity).
Employee Benefits
State of human development often referred to as the “working years”; between a person’s late twenties and early sixties, when he or she is productive in the world of work, develops a family, and re-examines personal beliefs & values.
Generativity
Something you are unsure or hesitant about, not fully worked out or developed.
Tentative
The necessity to master a basic skill prior to a level skill, hierarchical learning, scaffolding. I.e. - walk before run, add before subtract or multiply, etc.
Prerequisite Skill Acquisition
A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts, gut feeling, origins cannot be explained by the individual.
Hunch