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Affirmative Action

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A detailed plan that a company makes to recruit and advance women and minorities.

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Mediator

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A neutral third party that helps two parties reach an agreement.

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Expatriate

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A person who is sent to work in a foreign country

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KSAO

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A person’s Knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics.

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Job description

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A listing of what a job includes such as tasks, duties and responsibilities.

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Workweek

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A period of 168 hours during 7 consecutive 24 hour periods.

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Entrepreneur

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A person who starts a business

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Training

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A program built primarily to assist employee development

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Job

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A set of related tasks or reponsibilities

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Job instruction training

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A step-by-step method of teaching a job

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ADA

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America with Disabilities Act

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Avoiding the risk

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Avoiding certain industries

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Bargaining unit

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A set of employees with similar views who negotiate as a group

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Gainsharing plans

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A charing of profits among employees and management based on preset forulas

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ADEA

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Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

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Predictive validity test

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An applicant is tested, hired, then evaluated by their current supervisor

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Overtime

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Be paid at a rate of at least one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay.

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Paired comparison method

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Comparing each employee to every other employee in a particular area

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HR manager

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Counsel employees, perform administrative functions and create and implement policies

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Managing diversity

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Creating a work environment in which women, minorities and disabled people can succeed.

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Environmental Stress

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Background noise

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Job analysis

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Categorizing exactly what skills and tasks a specific job requires.

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COBRA

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Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

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Employee counsling

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Available for employees typically offered through a medical plan

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Personnel management
Deals with recruitment, selection, placement, training, compensation and working conditions.
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EAP
Employee Assistance Program
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Job rotation
Employees are moved from one department to another in order to understand how the business works.
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EEOC
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Realistic job preview
Describing both benefits and negative aspects of a job for potential employees
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ERISA
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
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EEO
Equal Employment Opportunity
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Peer appraisal | appraisal- 기업평가
Evaluations completed by other employees which are reviewed by management.
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FMLA
Family and Medical Leave Act
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Factor Comparison
For a few predetermined key jobs, points are allotted and wage rates for such key jobs are fixed.
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Personnel records
Give all the data in the application along with education records, test scores and other factors.
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HIPPA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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FLSA
Fair Labor Standards Act
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Termination
Firing an employee
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Unions
Formal associations of employees to represent employees in negotiations with management
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Arbitrator
Has the last word and has the power to completed the settlement
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Job relatedness
How essential job tasks are related to the job
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Job enrichment
Improving employee satisfaction by increasing the number of responsibilities or tasks
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Selection
Interviewing and hiring
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Right to know laws
Law which dictate that employees must be informed about potential hazards of their job.
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Personnel appraisal
Helps the employees to know their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
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Job design
Ideal traits for a position
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Job enlargement
Increasing the number of tasks an employee must complete
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Critical incident method
Keeping a record of an employee's positive or negative behavior
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Norris-LaGuardia Act
Made "Yellow-dog" contract (a promise from an employee to not join a union) unenforceable.
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Labor management
Managing of manual workers of an organization
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Aptitude test
Measures a new hire's potential
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Benchmarking
Measuring Success based on accepted standards
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Personnel administration
Level 4 need Looks into manpower resources, aims at harmonious labor, works to achieve organization goals and keeps records.
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Role Playing
Managers "pretend" to be in a certain role during training to help them understand both sides of a problem
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Behaviorally anchored rating scale
Matches rating with employee behavior
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Achievement test
measures what a person already knows.
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NLRB
Nation Labor Relations Board
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Team interview
One applicant meets with several company employees at one time
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Piece rate
Paid per piece completed instead of per hour
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Unemployment insurance
Provides weekly pay to employees who lost their job.
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NLRA
National Labor Relations Act
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OHSA
Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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Taft Hartley Act
Outlawed for unions the closed shop, jurisdictional strikes, and secondary boycotts
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Escalator clauses
Periodic pay raises based on market inflation
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Alternation ranking method
Rate employees as a group from best to worst on a particular area
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Minimizing the risk
Screening employees, utilizing network passwords, etc.
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Assuming the risk
Setting aside enough money to pay for potential losses
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Core skills
Skills an employee has which can be applied in many jobs
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Shifting the risk
Purchasing insurance policies
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Graphology
Scientific analysis of your handwriting
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Industrious relations
Seeks to bring harmonious relations between labor, management and government.
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Group interview
Several applicants meet with one or more company representatives
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Resource flexibility
The ability of employees to creatively and successfully complete various jobs.
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Human capital
The human resources such as educated staff, that make the company more valuable
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Outplacement
The process of helping an old employee find work at a new company
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Ergonomics
The study of designing more comfortable equipment
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Eustress
Stress that we can use positively for our personal growth
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Defined rights
The clearly stated areas of authority held by management
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Reverse discrimination
The practice of giving benefits only to protected or minority groups
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Board interview
The same as a team interview
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Employee development
Training
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Virtual office
When an employees works at a remote location as if they were in an office
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Benefits
The perks associated with a job
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Downsizing
When the company wants to reduce its employees to improve the bottom line
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Nepotism
The tendency to hire relatives of current employees
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Vestibule training
Training in an offsite facility that mimics the job environment
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Commission
When employees are paid rewards based on a percentage of their sales
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Incentive plan
When performance is directly linked to pay
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Programmed learning
When the employee is taught information, asked questions, and reviews the answers with the trainer
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Strike
When the workers do not come to work until the problem is resolved
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On the job training
When you learn the job by actually doing it
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WARN
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
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Coaching
When the new employee works with the employee they are replacing
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Job sharing
When two or more people share the same job reponsibilities
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Women affected by pregnancy or related condition must receive equal treatment
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Telecommuting
Working remotely from the office or form home

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