Organization
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also called trade union.
What is a Labor union
Number of people on an organization’s payroll at a particular moment in time.
What is Head count
U.S act that frees employers who use third parties to conduct workplace investigations from the consent and disclosure requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in certain cases.
What is the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act)
Common form of post-employment agreement that prevents employee from leaving to work for one of employer’s competitors.
What is a Non-compete agreement (NCA)
Process of systematically studying a job in order to identify the activities/tasks and responsibilities it includes, the personal qualifications necessary to perform it, and the conditions under which it is performed.
What is Job analysis
Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
What is a Line units
Factor that motivates performance of a desired behavior or discourages performance of an undesired behavior.
What is an Incentive
U.S act that protects privacy of background information and ensures that information supplied is accurate.
What is the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
Common form of post-employment agreement, especially in knowledge industries, in which employee agrees not to discuss knowledge gained during employment.
What is a Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
Job evaluation method in which descriptions are written for each class of jobs; individual jobs are then put into the grade that best matches their class description.
What is Job classification
Action of an employer to shut down operations to prevent employees from working.
What is a Lockout
Form of direct compensation where employers pay for performance beyond normal expectations to motivate higher performance.
What is Incentive pay
U.S act that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, youth employment, and record-keeping standards affecting full- and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Process of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization and the well-being of its members through planned interventions.
What is Organizational development
Document that describes a job and its essential functions and requirements (including tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, responsibilities, and reporting structure).
What is a Job description
Organizational structure that combines departmentalization by division and function to gain the benefits of both; results in some employees reporting to two managers rather than one, with neither manager assuming a superior role.
What is a Matrix structure
Document that guides employees toward their goals for professional development and growth.
What is an Individual development plan (IDP)
U.S act that provides employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for family members or because of a serious health condition of the employee.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities instead of hiring new employees.
What is Outsourcing
Process of broadening a job’s scope by adding different tasks to the job.
What is Job enlargement
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also called conciliation.
What is Mediation
Extent to which employees perceive that monetary and other rewards are distributed equitably, based on effort, skill and/or relevant outcomes.
What is Internal equity
U.S. court ruling that distinguished between supervisor harassment that results in tangible employment action and supervisor harassment that does not.
What is Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
Positioning of employees at a place of work targeted for the action for the purpose of protest.
What is Picketing
Process of increasing a job’s depth by adding responsibilities to the job.
What is Job enrichment