C Flashcards
Career Development
Progression through a series of employment stages characterized by relatively unique issues, themes, and tasks.
Career management
Preparing, implementing, and monitoring employees’ career paths, with a primary focus on the goals and needs of the organization.
Career planning
Actions and activities that individuals perform in order to give direction to their work lives.
Cash flow statement
Statement of an organization’s ability to meet its current and short-term obligations, showing incoming and outgoing cash and cash reserves in operations, investments, and financing.
Center of excellence (COE)
An organizational structure that leverages staff expertise in certain areas to improve the entire organization’s strategic performance.
Chain of command
Line of authority within an organization.
Civil law
Legal system based on written codes (laws, rules, or regulations).
Civil Rights Act of 1964
First comprehensive U.S. law making it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1991
U.S. act that expands the possible damage awards available to victims of intentional discrimination to include compensatory and punitive damages; gives plaintiffs in cases of alleged discrimination the right to a jury trial.
Cloud computing
Style of computing in which scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using Internet technologies.
Coaching
Focused, interactive communication and guidance intended to develop and enhance on-the-job performance, knowledge, or behavior.
Code of conduct
Principles that guide decision making and behavior in an organization.
Codetermination
Form of corporate governance that requires a typical management board and a supervisory board and that allows management and employees to participate in strategic decision making.
Co-employment
Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for their alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; also known as joint employment.
Collective bargaining
Process by which management and union representatives negotiate the employment conditions for a particular bargaining unit for a designated period of time
Common law
Legal system in which each case is considered in terms of how it relates to legal decisions that have already been made; evolves through judicial decisions over time.
Comparable worth
Concept that jobs filled primarily by women that require skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions comparable to similar jobs filled primarily by men should have the same classifications and salaries.
Compa-ratio
Pay rate divided by the midpoint of the pay range.
Compensation
All financial returns (beyond any tangible benefits payments or services), including salary and allowances.
Compensation philosophy
Short but broad statement documenting an organization’s guiding principles and core values about employee compensation.
Competencies
Clusters of highly interrelated attributes, including knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs), that give rise to the behaviors needed to perform a given job effectively.
Compliance
State of being in accordance with all national, federal, regional, and/or local laws, regulations, and/or other government authority requirements applicable to the places in which an organization operates.
Conciliation
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also called mediation
Confidentiality
Treatment of personal information that has been disclosed to another person or organization.
Conflict of interest
Situation in which a person or organization may benefit from undue influence due to involvement in outside activities, relationships, or investments that conflict with or have an impact on the employment relationship or its outcomes.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
U.S. act that provides individuals and dependents who may lose health-care coverage with opportunity to pay to continue coverage.
Constructive discipline
Form of corrective discipline that implements increasingly severe penalties for employees.
Contingency plan
Protocol that an organization implements when an identified risk event occurs.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Varying ways an organization can create value, looking beyond traditional profit measures of revenue and expenses; includes such areas as philanthropy, volunteerism, corporate-sponsored community programs, social change, sustainability, corporate governance, employee rights, and workplace safety.
Cosourcing
Arrangement in which an enterprise and a vendor share different tasks within a larger complex, often strategic responsibility.
Cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)
Pay adjustment given to eligible employees regardless of performance or organizational profitability; usually linked to inflation.
Covering
Defensive behavior that occurs when an organization recruits a diverse workforce but, consciously or otherwise, promotes assimilation rather than inclusion.
Cultural intelligence
Capacity to recognize, interpret, and behaviorally adapt to multicultural situations and contexts.
Culture
Basic beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and customs shared and followed by members of a group, which give rise to the group’s sense of identity.
