Workplace
Reporting of an organization’s violations of policies and processes by employees.
What is Whistleblowing
HR function that acts on the organizational human capital needs identified through workforce planning and attempts to provide an adequate supply of qualified individuals to complete the body of work necessary for the organization’s financial success.
What is Staffing
Way an organization groups jobs to coordinate work.
What is Departmentalization
Capacity to recognize, interpret, and behaviorally adapt to multicultural situations and contexts.
What is Cultural intelligence
Plan of action for accomplishing an organization’s overall and long-range goals.
What is Strategy
U.S. act that requires some employers to give a minimum of 60 days’ notice if a plant is to close or if mass layoffs will occur.
What is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act
Structured conversations with employees for the purpose of determining which aspects of a job encourage employee retention or may be improved to do so.
What are Stay interviews
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 i Downsizing
Basic beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and customs shared and followed by members of a group, which give rise to the group’s sense of identity.
What is Culture
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
Any fixed, recurring period of 168 consecutive hours (7 days times 24 hours = 168 hours).
What is a Workweek
State in which an organization’s strategy is consistent with its external opportunities and circumstances and its internal structure, resources, and capabilities.
What is Strategic fit
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
Technique that progressively collects information from a group of anonymous respondents.
What is Delphi technique
Process for understanding how seemingly independent units within a larger entity interact with and influence one another.
What is Systems thinking
Amendments to U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act covering the definition of individuals regarded as having a disability, mitigating measures, and other rules to guide the analysis of what constitutes a disability.
What is the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA)
System of actions that leaders take to drive an organization toward its goals and objectives.
What is Strategic management
Principle of employment in the U.S. that employers have the right to hire, fire, demote, and promote whomever they choose for any reason unless there is a law or contract to the contrary and that employees have the right to quit a job at any time.
What is Employment at-will
Concept that laws are enforced only through accepted, codified procedures.
What is Due process
System in which pay is based on longevity in the job and pay increases occur on a pre-determined schedule.
What is Time-based step-rate pay
Type of discrimination that results when a policy that appears to be neutral has a discriminatory effect; also known as disparate impact.
What is Adverse impact
Process of setting goals and designing a path toward a competitive position.
What is Strategic planning
Conversion of data into a format that protects or hides its natural presentation or intended meaning.
What is Encryption
Ability to be sensitive to and understand one’s own and others’ emotions and impulses.
What is Emotional intelligence (EI)
Direct and indirect remuneration approaches that employers use to attract, recognize, and retain workers.
What are Total rewards