Workforce Planning
Encompasses all of the activities needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet the organizations strategic goals.
What is Workforce Management?
Might be used when there are shortages of available workers for open position, for peak demands for operations, operational upturns and downturns that make permanent head count impractical, or for special projects the demand specific skills.
What is Flexible Staffing?
Employees who meet a formal set of identification criteria (e.g., high-potential employees or potential global assignees).
What is a Talent Pool?
These reflect a consensus about employee rights and employer responsibilities. Even if they are not reflected in a nation's employment laws, they set a recognized bar that ethical employers strive to reach.
What are International Labor Standards?
Single enterprises, specific trades or crafts, national, industry.
What are types of unions?
Systematic approach to anticipate human capital needs and data HR professionals can use to ensure that appropriate knowledge, skills, or abilities will be available when needed to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
What is Workforce Analysis?
An organization identifies specific people and refers them to a staffing firm, which employs them and assigns them to work at the organization; arrangement is usually at a lower cost than traditional (finite) temporary help.
What is Payrolling?
Process of implementing a talent management strategy for identifying and fostering the development of high-potential employees or other job candidates who, over time, may move into leadership positions or increased responsibility.
What is Succession Planning?
The ownership of innovation by an individual or business enterprise. Includes patented, trademarked, or copyrighted property. A company logo is an example.
What is Intellectual Property?
Labor relations strategy in which employers remove the appeal of unions by addressing the major reasons why employees join them.
What is Avoidance?
Supply analysis, demand analysis, gap analysis, solution analysis.
What is the Workforce Analysis process?
Act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or structures of an organization.
What is Restructuring?
Concentrates on immediate needs and a "snapshot" assessment of the availability of qualified backup for individuals in key positions. Best candidate available vs best developmental potential.
What is Replacement Planning?
A post-employment agreement preventing an employee from leaving to work for one of the employers' competitors.
NCA - non-compete agreement
The process by which management and union representatives negotiate conditions for a particular bargaining unit.
What is Collective Bargaining?
Use of information from past and present to predict future conditions.
What are Judgmental forecasts?
Refers to the termination of individual employees or groupsa of employees for reasons other than their performance--i.e., economic necessity or restructuring.
What is Reduction in force (RIF) or Downsizing?
Process of creating, acquiring, sharing, and managing knowledge to augment individual and organizational performance.
What is Knowledge Management?
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers.
What is a labor union or trade union?
This process provides an orderly way o resolve the inevitable differences of opinion in regards to the union contract that develop during the life of the agreement.
What is the Grievance Procedure?
Compares supply and demand analyses to identify the staffing differences and competencies needed for the future.
What is a Gap analysis?
Act of shedding assets that do not contribute to the bottom line.
What is divestiture?
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 Dilligence?
Refers to the way organizations manage their relationships with employees as a collective group rather than individually.
What are Labor Relations?
Illegal in the US based on the NLRA, these are permanent bodies composed of employee representatives on local or organizational level who receive information from employer that might affect workforce and enterprise.
What are Works Councils?