HR Competencies
Ability to be sensitive to and understand one’s own and others’ emotions and impulses.
What is Emotional intelligence (EI)
Form of corrective discipline that implements increasingly severe penalties for employees.
What is Constructive discipline
Progression through a series of employment stages characterized by relatively unique issues, themes, and tasks.
What is Career development
U.S. act that expands the possible damage awards available to victims of intentional discrimination to include compensatory and punitive damages; gives plaintiffs in cases of alleged discrimination the right to a jury trial.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1991
Small group of invited persons (typically six to twelve) who actively participate in a structured discussion, led by a facilitator, for the purpose of eliciting their input.
What is a Focus group
Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities.
What is Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Arrangement in which an enterprise and a vendor share different tasks within a larger complex, often strategic responsibility.
What is Cosourcing
Preparing, implementing, and monitoring employees’ career paths, with a primary focus on the goals and needs of the organization.
What is Career management
Concept that jobs filled primarily by women that require skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions comparable to similar jobs filled primarily by men should have the same classifications and salaries.
What is Comparable worth
Group decision-making tool designed to analyze the forces favoring and opposing a particular change. A factor is weighted, and the factors on each side are summed and compared.
What is a Force-field analysis
Amount of owners’ or shareholders’ portion of a business.
What is Equity
HR structural alternative that allows organizations with different strategies in multiple units to apply HR expertise to each unit’s specific strategic needs.
What is Dedicated HR
Actions and activities that individuals perform in order to give direction to their work lives.
What is Career planning
State of being in accordance with all national, federal, regional, and/or local laws, regulations, and/or other government authority requirements applicable to the places in which an organization operates.
What is Compliance
Process of constructing a message so that an audience sees communicated facts in a certain way and is persuaded to take a certain action.
What is Framing
Extension of the power of a country’s laws over its citizens outside that country’s sovereign national boundaries.
What is Extraterritoriality
Way an organization groups jobs to coordinate work.
What is Departmentalization
Focused, interactive communication and guidance intended to develop and enhance on-the-job performance, knowledge, or behavior.
What is Coaching
Situation in which a person or organization may benefit from undue influence due to involvement in outside activities, relationships, or investments that conflict with or have an impact on the employment relationship or its outcomes.
What is a Conflict of interest
Ability to take an international perspective, inclusive of other cultures’ views.
What is a Global mindset
In communication, structuring a message to include opportunities for correction or clarification. This requires two-way communication.
What is the Feedback loop
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 is Downsizing
Pay rate divided by the midpoint of the pay range.
What is a Compa-ratio
U.S. act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose health-care coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
What is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Ratio of gross profit to net sales.
What is Gross profit margin