HR Organization Flashcards
Human resource information
information technology framework and tools for gathering, storing, maintaining, retrieving, revising, and reporting HR data.
Formalization
Refer to the extent to which rules, policies, and procedures governing the behavior of employees in an organization
Encryption
Conversion of data into a format that protects or hides its natural presentation or intended meaning.
Downsizing
Termination of employment of individual employees for reasons other than performance.
Ex: economic necessity or restructuring; aka reduction in force
Industrial actions
Various forms of collective employee actions taken to protest work conditions or employer actions
Dedicated HR
HR structural alternative that allows organizations with different strategies in multiple units to apply HR expertise to each unit’s specific strategic needs.
Joint Employment
Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for its alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; aka co-employment
Allows for each person to work shorter hours
Knowledge Management (KM)
Process of creating, acquiring, sharing, and managing knowledge to augment individual and organizational performance.
Information system (IS)
Way to collect, organize, store, analyze, and share data.
Judgemental Forecasts
Use of information from past and present to predict future conditions
Labor Union
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; aka trade union
Lockout
Action of an employer to shut down operations to prevent employees from working
Mediation
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help to disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; aka conciliation
Outsourcing
Process by which a company contracts with 3rd party vendors to provide selected services/activities instead of hiring new employees.
Policy
Broad statement that reflects an company’s philosophy, objectives, or standards concerning a particular set of management or employee activities.
Project Labor agreement (PLA)
Agreement that requires specific contracts to accept certain conditions in project contracts such as paying a fair wage and contributing to health insurance, pension, and training funds.
Replacement planning
Snapshot assessment of the availability of qualified backup for key positioins
Secondary Action
Attempt by a union to influence an employer by putting pressure on another employer for example s supplier.
Simulations
Representations of real situations; give companies the opportunity to speculate as to what would happen if certain courses of action were pursued.
Picketing
Positioning of employee at a place of work targeted for the action for the purpose of protest.
Protesting done by people in the union.
Regression analysis
Statistical method used to determine whether a relationship exists between variables and the strength of the relationship.
Restructuring
Act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of an organization.
Sit- down strike
Refusal by workers ;to work’ also refusal by workers to leave their workstations making it possible for the employer ton use replacement workers
Succession planning
Process of implementing a talent management strategy for identifying and fostering the development of high-potential employees or other job candidates who overtime may move into leadership positions of increased responsibility
Who is next in line? Training particular employees for new higher up positions
