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100

Performance management tool that depicts an organization’s overall performance, as measured against goals, lagging indicators, and leading indicators.

Balanced scorecard

100

Process that involves a systematic survey and interpretation of relevant data to identify external opportunities and threats and to assess how these factors affect the organization currently and how they are likely to affect the organization in the future.

Environmental scanning

100

Quantifiable measures of performance used to gauge progress toward strategic objectives or agreed standards of performance

Key performance indicators (KPIs)

100

Type of metric describing an activity or change in performance that has already occurred.

Lagging indicator

100

Concise outline of an organization’s strategy, specifying the activities the organization intends to pursue and the course its management has charted for the future.

Mission statement

200

Scanning process that searches for environmental forces in political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental categories.

PESTLE analysis

200

Process of setting goals and designing a path toward a competitive position.

Strategic planning

200

Process for understanding how seemingly independent units within a larger entity interact with and influence one another.

Systems thinking

200

Clusters of highly interrelated attributes, including knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), that give rise to the behaviors needed to perform a given job effectively

Competencies

200

Employees’ perceived value of the total rewards and tangible and intangible benefits they receive from the organization as part of employment, which drives unique and compelling organizational strategies for talent acquisition, retention, and engagement.

Employee value proposition (EVP)

300

Process of positioning an organization as an “employer of choice” in the labor market.

Employment branding

300

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.

Job analysis

300

Written statements of the minimum qualifications for the job incumbent.

Job specifications

300

Modifying a job application process, a work environment, or the circumstances under which a job is performed to enable a qualified individual with a disability to be considered for the job and perform its essential functions.

Reasonable accommodation

300

Employees’ emotional commitment to an organization, demonstrated by their willingness to put in discretionary effort to promote the organization’s effective functioning.

Employee engagement

400

Activities associated with an employee’s tenure in an organization.

Employee life cycle (ELC)

400

Tools, activities, and processes that an organization uses to manage, maintain, and/or improve the job performance of employees.

Performance management

400

Behaviors and results as defined by an organization to communicate the expectations of management.

Performance standards

400

Tool used to provide a job applicant with honest, complete information about a job and the work environmen

Realistic job preview (RJP)

400

Structured conversations with employees for the purpose of determining which aspects of a job encourage employee retention or may be improved to do so.

Stay interviews

500

Physical, psychological, and social aspects of employee health.

Well-being

500

Ability of an organization to keep its employees.

Retention

500

Process of measuring and evaluating an employee’s adherence to performance standards and providing feedback to the employee.

Performance appraisal

500

Process by which an organization generates a pool of qualified job applicants.

Sourcing

500

Number of people on an organization’s payroll at a particular moment in time.

Head count