People Flashcards
Action Mapping
Instructional design model based on concept that training should be tightly focused on specific performance measures that the organization has determined are important.
ADDIE Model
Instructional systems design framework consisting of five steps that guide the design and development of learning programs.
Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Software application that automates organizations’ management of the recruiting process (such as accepting application materials, screening applicants, etc.)
Apprenticeship
Related to technical skills training; often a partnership between employers and unions.
Assessment Centers
Assessment tools that provide candidates a wide range of leadership situations and problem-solving exercises.
Auditory Learners
People who learn best by relying on their sense of hearing.
Balanced Scorecard
Performance management tool that depicts an organization’s overall performance, as measured against goals, lagging indicators, and leading indicators.
Benchmarking
Process by which an organization identifies performance gaps and sets goals for performance improvement by comparing its data, performance levels, and/or processes against those of other organizations.
Blended Learning
Planned approach to learning that includes a combination of instructor-led training, self-directed study, and/or on-the-job training.
Broadbanding
Combining several salary grades or job classifications with narrow pay ranges into one band with a wider salary spread.
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.
Coaching
Focused, interactive communication and guidance intended to develop and enhance on-the-job performance, knowledge, or behavior.
Compa-ratio
Pay rate divided by the midpoint of the pay range.
Compensation Philosophy
Short but broad statement documenting an organization’s guiding principles and core values about employee compensation.
Compensation
All financial returns (beyond any tangible benefits payments or services), including salary and allowances.
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.
Cost-of-living Adjustment (COLA)
Pay adjustment given to eligible employees regardless of performance or organizational profitability; usually linked to inflation.
Developmental Activities
Activities that focus on preparing employees for future responsibilities while increasing their capacity to perform their current jobs.
Distance Learning
Process of delivering educational or instructional programs to locations away from a classroom or central site.
Domestic Partners
Unmarried, couples, of the same or opposite sex, who live together and seek economic, and non-economic benefits, comparable to those granted to their married counterparts.
Dual Career Ladders
Career development programs that identify meaningful career paths for professional and technical people outside traditional management roles.
E-learning
Electronic media, delivery of educational and training, materials, processes and programs.
Employee Engagement
Employees’ emotional commitment to an organization, demonstrated by their willingness to put in discretionary effort to promote the organization’s effective functioning.
Employee Life Cycle (ELC)
Activities associated with an employee’s tenure in an organization.
Employee Surveys
Instruments that collect in assess information on employee engagement, satisfaction, and perception surrounding the work environment.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Employees’ perceived value of the total rewards and tangible and intangible benefits they receive from the organization as part of employment, which drives unique and compelling organizational strategies for talent, acquisition, retention, and engagement.
Employee Branding
Process of positioning and organization as an “employer of choice“ in the labor market.
Environmental Scanning
Process that involves a systematic survey and interpretation of relevant data to identify external opportunities and threats to assess how these factors affect the organization currently and how they are likely to affect the organization in the future.
Essential Functions
Primary job duties that are qualified. Individual must be able to perform, either with or without accommodation.
External Equity
Situation in which an organization’s compensation levels and benefits are similar to those of other organizations that are in the same labor market and compete for the same employees.
Flat-rate Pay
Provides each incumbent of a job with the same rate of pay, regardless of performance or seniority; also known as single-rate pay.
General Pay Increase
Pay increase given to employees based on local competitive market requirements; awarded regardless of employee performance.
Green-Circle Rates
Situations in which an employees pay is below the minimum of the range.
Head Count
Number of people on an organization’s payroll at a particular moment in time.
Incentive Pay
Form of direct compensation where employers pay for performance beyond normal expectations to motivate higher performance.
Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Document that guides employees toward their goals for professional development and growth.
Internal Equity
Extent to which employees perceive that monetary and other rewards are distributed, equitably, based on effort, skill, and/or relevant outcomes.
Job Analysis
Process of systematically studying a job in order to identify the activities/tasks and responsibilities it includes, the professional qualifications necessary to perform it, and the conditions under which it is performed.
Job. Classification
Job evaluation method in which descriptions are written for each class of jobs; individual jobs are then put into the grade that best matches their class description.
Job Description
Document that describes a job and it’s essential functions and and require requirements (including tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, responsibilities, and reporting structure).
Job Enlargement
Process of broadening a job’s scope by adding different tasks to the job.
Job Enrichment
Process of increasing a job’s depth by adding responsibilities to the job.