HR Basics
Hiring... onboarding...performance management and talent development... job change/promotion...retirement/exit
What is the employee life-cycle?
This entitles eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12 month period for specified family and medical reasons.
What is FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act)
Often considered the most contentious part of HR.
What is performance management?
The framework that an organization creates and manages to ensure that employee performance is reciprocated with some sort of reward.
What is rewards?
The strategy for selection, recruiting and hiring processes.
What is talent acquisition?
The administrative and regulatory function. Compliance with numerous regulations and laws that govern employment relations.
What is human resource compliance?
This protects individuals who are 40+ years old from discrimination based on age.
What is the ADEA (Age Discrimination in Employment Act)?
This performance management system can be traced back to the military, WWI.
What is merit rating?
Compensation structure that allows differentiation of compensation based on employee performance and rewards the best-performing employees.
What is pay-for-performance?
Provides feedback from managers, peers, direct reports, customers, etc...
What is an individual assessment?
Documentation of rules and regulations. One of the most important HR resources.
What is an employee handbook?
This establishes the minimum-wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping and youth employment standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in private sector, federal, state and local governments.
What is FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act)?
Developed by software developers and “emphasized principles of collaboration, self-organization, self-direction, and regular reflection on how to work more effectively.
What is the "Agile Manifesto"?
6 elements that collectively define an organization's strategy to attract, motivate, retain and engage employees.
What is total rewards strategy?
The process for reviewing key roles and determining the readiness levels of potential internal (and external) candidates to fill these roles.
What is succession planning?
HR services offered to a company on a part-time or intermittent basis.
What is Fractional HR?
This prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities.
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
HR is responsible for creating and facilitating this.
What is the performance management process?
Acquire, Bond, Comprehend and Defend.
What are the 4 drives that underlie motivation?
Anticipate your needs. Specify the job. Develop the pool. Assess the candidates. Close the deal. Integrate the newcomer.
What are the key steps for effective recruiting?
This has happened over the last 15-20 years. It is the integration of the HR strategy with business strategy.
What is wave 3?
This extends the rights to private sector employees the right to organize and bargain with their employer, collectively.
What is the NLRA (National Labor Relations Act)?
Aligning individual and company goals, reward structures, identification of poor performers, avoiding legal troubles and keeping conversations, documentation and feedback in a place where it can be tracked.
What are the challenges of performance management?
Describes the idea that humans extend connections beyond just individuals, to organizations, associations, and nations.
What is the drive to bond?
Business acumen, strategic thinking, leadership skills, people skills, learning agility and technology skills.
What are higher-potential employee competencies?