People
Workplace
People 2
Workplace 2
Organization
100

Behaviors and results as defined by an organization to communicate the expectations of management.

What is Performance standards

100

Situation in which an agent (e.g., an employee) makes decisions for a principal (e.g., an employer) potentially on the basis of personal incentives that may not be aligned with the principal’s incentives.

What is Principal-agent problem

100

Learning/development programs offered initially in a controlled environment with a segment of the target audience.

What are Pilot programs

100

Type of sexual harassment that occurs when an employee is forced to choose between giving in to a superior’s sexual demands and forfeiting an economic benefit such as a pay increase, a promotion, or continued employment.

What is Quid pro quo harassment

100

Groups that represent employees, generally on a local or organizational level, for the primary purpose of receiving from employers and conveying to employees information about the workforce and the health of the enterprise.

What are Works councils

200

Situation where an individual’s performance on the job is the basis for the amount and timing of pay increases; also called merit pay or pay for performance.

What is Performance-based pay

200

Extent to which underlying operations such as IT, finance, or HR integrate across locations.

What is Process alignment

200

Job evaluation method that looks at compensable factors (such as skills and working conditions) that reflect how much a job adds value to the organization; points are assigned to each factor and then added to come up with an overall point value for the job.

What is Point-factor system

200

Modifying job application process, work environment, or circumstances under which job is performed to enable a qualified individual with a disability to be considered for the job and perform its essential functions.

What is Reasonable accommodation

200

Situation in which workers slow processes by performing tasks exactly to specifications or according to job or task descriptions.

What is Work-to-rule

300

Compensation provided on an individual basis in the form of goods or services.

What are Perquisites

300

People who are covered under a particular federal or state anti-discrimination law.

What is a Protected class

300

Payments in return for the achievement of specific, time-limited, targeted objectives.

What are Premiums

300

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

300

Umbrella term for the various approaches and techniques, other than litigation, that can be used to resolve a dispute.

What is a Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

400

Pay systems in which employee characteristics, rather than the job, determine pay.

What is Person-based pay

400

States that a fiduciary of a plan covered by the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act has legal and financial obligations not to take more risks when investing employee benefit program funds than a reasonably knowledgeable, prudent investor would under similar circumstances.

What is Prudent person rule

400

Pay based on the quantity of work and outputs that can be accurately measured.

What is Productivity-based pay

400

Rules or orders issued by an administrative agency of government that usually have the force of law.

What is Regulation

400

Method of dispute resolution by which disputing parties agree to be bound by the decision of one or more impartial persons to whom they submit their dispute for final determination.

What is Arbitration

500

Scanning process that searches for environmental forces in political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental categories.

What is PESTLE analysis

500

Time allowed for the public to express its views and concerns regarding an action of an administrative agency.

What is Public comment period

500

Tool used to provide a job applicant with honest, complete information about a job and the work environment.

What is a Realistic job preview (RJP)

500

Process by which employees returning from international assignments reintegrate into their home country’s culture, conditions, and employment.

What is Repatriation

500

Ability of a computer to imitate human thought and behavior.

What is Artificial intelligence (AI)