Vocabulary
Monetary compensation
What is wages?
Area of agriculture concerned with growing crops, raising livestock and producing livestock products (ex: eggs and milk)
What is production agriculture?
A person is always present for work on time and does the job as it should be done
What is dependability?
Compensation based on productivity
What is piece rate? (aka commission)
A reason that someone may be terminated from their job by failing to do the work needed.
What is lack of productivity?
Attribute needed to successfully perform an occupation
What is Occupational Competency?
Area of horticulture including the production, design, and marketing of flowers?
What is floriculture?
Having the necessary capacity to communicate, dress and groom appropriately, use information, provide reports to supervisors, and relate to other people in the work setting
What is employability competencies?
Something an employee receives above and beyond their monetary compensation
What is employee benefits?
Agriculture career area that includes all the activities in preparing crops or livestock from farms for their desired product for consumers
What is processing and marketing?
A specific area of work that can be given a title and that has identifiable skills
What is Occupation?
Area of agriculture concerned with producing trees for various uses (ex: lumber, paper, ornamental)
What is forestry?
Common courtesies that help people work and live together happily
What is human relations skills?
The general direction of a person's life in relation to their work
What is a career?
A person has energy and puts forth effort to get their job done without a lot of supervision, and seeks new ways to be efficiently productive
What is Initiative?
The series of steps one climbs to move up in a career from entry level to more responsible positions
What is Career Ladder?
Area of horticulture that deals primarily with food products, and includes production and processing, packaging and distribution, and marketing
What is fruits, vegetables and nuts?
Faithfulness to the employer and coworkers?
What is loyalty?
A person's specific work where there are definite duties at a certain location and for which they receive benefits?
What is a job?
Agriculture career area that is concerned with the conservation of water, air, soil, etc.
What is natural resources?
Areas of general education that support and enable a person to perform the duties of an occupation
What is Related Academic Competency?
Area of agriculture that is concerned with producing and providing inputs to production agriculture? (ex: fertilizer, fuel, chemicals, feed)
What is supplies and services?
The necessary knowledge and skill in science and other related areas to do the work in an occupation
What is technical Competency?
The ownership of a business that produces goods or services to meet the needs of other people or businesses?
What is entrepreneurship?
Area of horticulture that includes production nurseries, landscape maintenance services, retail garden centers and botanical gardens?
What is landscape horticulture?