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| Human resource management |
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| the process of hiring, developing, motivating, and evaluating employees to achieve organizational goals |
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| creating a strategy for meeting future human resource needs |
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| a study of the tasks required to do a particular job well |
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| the tasks and responsibilities of a job |
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| a list of the skills, knowledge, and abilities a person must have to fill a job |
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| persons who prefer temporary employment, either part or full-time |
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| an event, typically one day, held at a convention centre to bring together thousands of job seekers and hundreds of companies searching for employees |
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| persons are invited to an open house on the premises of the corporation. Qualified applicants are encouraged to complete an application before leaving |
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| the process of determining which persons in the applicant pool possess the qualifications necessary to be successful on the job |
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| an in-depth discussion of an applicant's work experience, skills and abilities, education, and career interests |
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| activities that provide learning situations in which an employee acquires additional knowledge or skills to increase job performance |
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| training that prepares a new employee to perform on the job |
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| training in which the employee learns the job by doing it with guidance from a supervisor or an experienced coworker |
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| reassignment of workers to several different jobs over time so that they can learn the basics of each job |
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| a form of on-the-job training that combines specific job instruction with classroom instruction |
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| working in an accredited environment to apply theoretical knowledge learned through formal education and develop professional judgment |
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| a form of on-the-job training in which a senior manager or other experienced employee provides job- and career-related information to a protege |
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| a form of computer-assisted off-the-job training |
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| a scaled-down version or mock-up of equipment, process, or work environment |
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| a comparison of actual performance with expected performance to assess an employee's contributions to the organization |
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| indirect compensation, such as pensions, health insurance, and vacations |
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| an organization that represents workers in dealing with management over issues involving wages, hours, and working conditions |
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| the process of negotiating labour agreements that provides for compensation and working arrangements mutually acceptable to the union and to the management |
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| a branch or unit of a national union that represents workers at a specific plant or in a specific geographic era |
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| a union that consists of many local unions in a particular industry, skilled trade or geographic area and thus represents workers throughout an entire country |
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| an elected union official who represents union members to management when workers have issues |
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| a company where only union members can be hired |
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| a company where non-union workers can be hired but must then join the union |
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| a company where employees are not required to join the union but must pay it a fee to cover its expenses in representing them |
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| a company where employees do not have to join the union or pay dues or fees to the union; established under right-to-work laws |
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| cost-of-living adjustment |
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| a provision in a labour contract that calls for wages to increase automatically as the cost of living rises |
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| a formal complaint, filed by an employee or by the union, charging that management has violated the contract |
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| the process of settling a labour management dispute by having a third party-a single arbitrator or panel- make a decision, which is binding on both the union, and the employer |
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| a method of attempting to settle labour issues in which a specialist (the mediator) tries to persuade management and the union to adjust or settle their dispute |
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| a set of unique features of an organization that are perceived by costumers and potential costumers as significant and superior to the competition's |
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| the assignment of various functions, such as human resources, accounting, or legal work, to outside organizations |
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| the attempt to find and attract qualified applicants in the external labour market |
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