HR Competencies
Workplace
People
Organization
Workplace 2
100

Data-sorting technique in which a group categorizes and sub-categorizes data until relationships are clearly drawn.

What is Affinity diagramming

100

Amount of uncertainty that remains after all risk management efforts have been exhausted.

What is Residual risk

100

Process by which an organization seeks out candidates and encourages them to apply for job openings.

What is Recruitment

100

An organizational structure that leverages staff expertise in certain areas to improve the entire organization’s strategic performance.

What is Center of excellence (COE)

100

System for identifying, evaluating, and controlling actual and potential risks to an organization.

What is Risk management

200

Financial, physical, and sometimes intangible properties an organization owns.

What are Assets

200

Innovations created for or by emerging-economy markets and then imported to developed-economy markets.

What is Reverse innovation

200

Situations in which employees’ pay is above the range maximum.

What are Red-circle rates

200

Line of authority within an organization.

What is Chain of command

200

An organization’s desired gain or acceptable loss in value.

What is Risk position

300

Statement of an organization’s financial position at a specific point in time, showing assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity.

What is Balance sheet

300

Uncertainty that has an effect on an objective, where outcomes may include opportunities, losses, and threats.

What is Risk

300

Instruments that collect information on prevailing market compensation and benefits practices (including starting wage rates, base pay, pay ranges, statutory and market cash payments, variable compensation, and paid time off).

What are Remuneration surveys

300

Style of computing in which scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using Internet technologies.

What is Cloud computing

300

Tool used to gather individual assessments of various characteristics of risk (e.g., frequency of occurrence; degree of impact, loss, or gain for the organization; degree of efficacy of current controls).

What is Risk scorecard

400

Presentation to management that establishes that a specific problem exists and argues for a proposed solution.

What is a Business case

400

Amount of uncertainty an organization is willing to pursue or to accept to attain its risk management goals.

What is Risk appetite

400

Ability of an organization to keep its employees.

What is Retention

400

Form of corporate governance that requires a typical management board and a supervisory board and that allows management and employees to participate in strategic decision making.

What is Code-termination

400

Amount of uncertainty an organization is willing to pursue or to accept to attain its risk management goals.

What is Risk tolerance

500

Ability to use information to gain a deeper understanding of an organization and make sound business decisions.

What is Business intelligence

500

Action taken to manage a risk.

Risk control

500

Process of evaluating the most suitable candidates for a position.

What is Selection

500

Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for their alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; also known as joint employment.

What is Co-employment

500

U.S. act that requires that all publicly held companies establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting to reduce the possibility of corporate fraud.

What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)