Definitions - CH. 1 Flashcards
Performance Management
The process of establishing performance goals and designing interventions and programs to motivate and develop employees to improve their performance.
S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and have a time frame.
Training
Formal and planned efforts to help employees acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve performance in their current job.
Development
Formal and planned efforts to help employees acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform future job responsibilities.
Human Capital
The knowledge, skills, and abilities of an organization’s employees.
Social Capital
The social resources that an individual obtains from participation in a social structure.
Work Engagement
A positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption.
Skills Mismatch
An insufficient number of workers with the skills needed are available to satisfy the number of available jobs.
Work Integrated-Learning
Providing students with work experience through internships, apprenticeships, and cooperative placements.
Training Bond
A contract between the employer and the employee that states that the employer will pay for the employee’s training as long as the employee remains with the organization for a minimum period of time following completion of the training program.
Strategy
An organization’s objectives and action plans for realizing its objectives and gaining a competitive advantage.
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)
The alignment of human resources practices with an organization’s business strategy.
Strategic Training and Development (ST&D)
The alignment of an organization’s training needs and programs with an organization’s strategy and objectives.
Organizational Culture
The shared beliefs, values, and assumptions that exist in an organization.
High-Performance Work System (HPWS)
An integrated system of human resource practices and policies that usually includes rigorous recruitment and selection procedures, performance-contingent incentive compensation, performance management, a commitment to employee involvement, and extensive training and development programs.
Instructional Systems Design (ISD) Model
A rational and scientific model of the training and development process that consists of a needs analysis, training design and delivery, and training evaluation.
A.D.D.I.E.
Analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
