Organization Domain Flashcards
Unfair Labor Practice (ULP)
Violation of employee rights;act prohibited under labor relations statutes.
Whistle Blowing
Reporting of an organization’s violations of policies and processes by employees.
Wildcat Strike
Work stoppages at union contract operations that have not been sanctioned by the union.
Workforce Analysis
Systematic approach to anticipate human capital needs and data HR professionals can use to ensure that appropriate knowledge, skills, or abilities will be available when needed to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
Workforce Management
All activities needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet the organization’s strategic needs.
Workforce Planning
Activities needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet current and future organizational and individual needs.
Works Council
Groups that represent employees, generally on a local or organizational level, for the primary purpose of receiving from employers and conveying to employees information about the workforce and the health of the enterprise.
Work-to- Rule
Situation in which workers slow processes by performing tasks exactly to specifications or according to job or task descriptions.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Umbrella term for the various approaches and techniques, other than litigation, that can be used to resolve a dispute.
Arbitration
Method of dispute Resolution by which disputing parties agree to be bound by the decision of one or more impartial persons to whom they submit their dispute for final determination
Artificial Intelligence
Ability of a computer to imitate human thought and behaviour
Center of Excellence
An organization 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
Cloud Computing
Style of computing in which scalable IT- enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using internet technologies
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
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.
Constructive Discipline
Form of corrective discipline that implements increasingly severe penalties for employees
Cosourcibg
Arrangement in which an enterprise and a vendor share different tasks within a larger complex often strategic responsibility
Dedicated HR
HR structural alternivate that allows organizations with different strategies in multiple units to apply HR expertise to each unit’s specific strategic needs.
Departmentalization
Way an organization groups jobs to coordinate work
Downsizing
Termination of employment if individual employees or groups of employees for reasons other than performance for example economic necessity or restructuring also known as reduction in force.
Due Diligence
Process of investigating a decision thoroughly before finalizing it to identify all potential factors that could affect the positive and negative impacts of the decision.
Employment at Will
Principle of employment in the U.S. that employers have the right to hire, fire, demote, and promote whomever they choose for any reason unless there is a law or contract to the contrary and that employees have the right to quit a job at any time.
Encryption
Conversion of data into a format that protects or hides its natural presentation or intended meaning.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities.
Firewall
Software and/or hardware that filters incoming and outgoing communication according to preset rules.
