| A | B |
| Human Resources Management | The process of finding, selecting, training, and evaluating employees. |
| Job Description | A detailed outline of the duties, qualifications and conditions required to do a specific job. |
| Compensation | How much the job pays and the benefits offered. |
| Recruitment | Actively looking for qaulified people to fill a job. |
| Orientation | The process of helping new employees adjust to a company. |
| Workforce | All people 16 years and older who are employed or looking for a job |
| White-collar worker | one who’s job is more mental than physical |
| Performance Appraisal | An evaluation of how well you are doing your job. |
| Transfer | Move to another job within a company. |
| Blue Collar job | one who’s job in more physical than mental |
| Downsizing | is a planned reduction in the number of employees needed in a firm in order to reduce costs |
| Outsourcing | removes work from one company and sends it to another company that can complete it at a lower cost. |
| Planning & Staffing | identifying and filling all the jobs in the company with qualified people |
| Performanec Management | evaluating the work of employees and improving performance |
| Compensation & benefits | responsible for planning/managing payroll & benefits |
| Organizational Development | maintaining an safe, healthy and productive workplace |
| Job Analysis | is a specific study of a job to identify in detail the job duties and skill requirements |
| Cafeteria Plan | allows the employee to choose which benefits he/she wants |
| Incentive System | connect the amount of compensation to the quality or quantity of an employee’s performance |
| Promotion | the advancement of an employee to a position with greater responsibility |
| Termination | ends the employment relationship between a company and employee |
| Layoff | reduction in number of employees because of economic or business decisions |
| organizational culture | is the environment in which people work, made up of atmosphere, behaviors, beliefs and relationships |
| Labor Unions | an organized group of employees who negotiate with employers about wages & work conditions |
| Diversity | the comprehensive inclusion of people with differences in personal characteristics and attributes |
| Glass Ceiling | an artificial limit placed on minority groups moving into positions of authority |