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Accession
The term indicates any addition to the workforce of a concern.
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Accession Rate
The jargon also known as hiring rate means the number of employees that are added to a payroll during a given time period. It is ordinarily expressed as a percentage of total employment. The accession rate is an important indicator of economic growth. An increase in accession rate indicates economic recovery whereas decrease in such rate indicates an economic recession. Accession rates can be calculated using the following formula: Total accessions * 100 Accession rate = ----------------------------- Total number of workers
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Accidental Death Benefit
This is a type of clause contained in certain life insurance policies, which provides for payment of additional amounts to the beneficiary if the insured party dies as a result of an accident. There is also a type of provision, which allows an accident death benefit in which twice the normal value of the policy is payable and this provision is known as "double-indemnity" provision.
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Accident and Sickness Benefits
These are various types of regular payments made to employees who lose time from work owing to off-the job dis-abilities that are occasioned by accident or sickness.
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Accident Severity Rate
This rate is calculated as the number of workdays lost because of accidents per thousand hours worked.
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Across-the-Board Increase
It refers to an increase in wages granted to an entire workforce. Such an increment may be expressed in dollars or as percentage of salary.
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Actionable
An act or occurrence is actionable if it provides sufficient reason for a grievance or lawsuit.
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Active Listening
It is kind of counseling technique in which the counselor listens to both the facts and the feelings of the speaker. It is called "active" listening because the counselor has the specific responsibilities of showing interest, of not passing judgement, and of helping the speaker to work out his problems.
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Actuarial Projections
These are mathematical computations involving the rate of morality for a given group of people.
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Ad Hoc Committee
It is a committee formed for a particular task or purpose. Such committees cease to exist as soon as the goal of its formation is attained.
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Administrative Law
Administrative law is the law about the power and procedures of administrative agencies, including especially the law governing judicial review of administrative action. An administrative agency is a governmental authority, other than a court and other than a legislative body, which affects the right of private parties through adjudication, rulemaking, investigating, prosecuting, negotiating, settling, or informally acting. An administrative agency may be called a commission, board, authority, bureau, office, officer, administrator, department, corporation, administration, division or agency. Nothing of substance hinges on the choice of name, and usually the choices have been entirely haphazard. When the President, or a governor, or a municipal governing body exercises powers of adjudication or rulemaking, he or it is to that extent an administrative agency.
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Admonition
It is a simple reproval of an employee by a supervisor.
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Adverse Effect
It is the differential rate of selection for purposes such as hire, promotion, etc. Such discrimination works to the disadvantages of an applicant subgroup, particularly subgroups classified by race, sex, and other characteristics on the basis of which discrimination is prohibited by law.
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Adverse Impact
When a selection process for a particular job or group of jobs result in the selection of members of any racial, ethnic, or sex group at a lower rate than members of other groups, this process is said to have adverse impact.
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Advisory Arbitration
It is a type of arbitration recommending solution of a dispute. However it is not binding upon either party.
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Affirmative Action Groups
Affirmative action groups also termed as protected groups are segments of the population that are recognized by federal, state or local laws to be specifically protected from any employment discrimination. Such groups include women, identified minorities, the elderly, and the handicapped.
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Affirmative Action Officer
He is an individual in an establishment having the fundamental responsibility for the development, installation, and maintenance of the establishment’s affirmative action program.
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Affirmative Action Plan
This is a written plan of an organization to redress past discrimination against, or underutilization of, women and minorities. The plan consists of a statement of goals, timetables for achieving milestones, and specific program efforts.
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Affirmative Action Program
It is a formal course of action undertaken by employers to hire and promote women and minorities in order to correct past abuses or maintain present equity. The most basic tool of an affirmative action program is the affirmative action plain.
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Affirmative Recruitment
It signifies the recruiting efforts undertaken to assure that sufficient numbers of women and minorities are represented in applicant pools for positions in which they have been underutilized in past.
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Agent Provocateur
He is an individual by an organization to cause problems for a rival organization by inducing its members to perform acts that the best interest of the opposition.
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Abandonment of Position
It means to quit a job without formally resigning.
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Abrogation of Agreement
It is the formal cancellation of a collective bargaining contract or any part of such agreement.
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Accelerating Premium Pay
It is a sort of bonus incentive system in, which pay rates increase when actual production exceeds the set standards.
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Achievement Drive
It is an urge to strive for higher standards of performance in a given area of endeavor. The term is also known, as achievement need.
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Action Research
It denotes application of the scientific method to practical problems.
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Actuary
An actuary is a specialist in the mathematics of insurance.
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Ad Hoc Arbitrator
He is an arbitrator selected by the parties involved to serve on one case. Nothing prevents the arbitrator from being used again if both parties agree. Ad hoc or temporary, single-case arbitration is different from ‘permanent’ arbitration where arbitrators are named in an agreement to help resolve disputes about the agreement that may arise during the life of the agreement.
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Advance on Wages
These are wages or salaries that are drawn in advance of work performance or earned commissions. The term also applies to payments in advance of the regular payday for sums already earned.
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Adverse Action
It is the personnel action considered unfavorable to an employee, such as discharge, suspension, demotion, etc.
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Affected Class
He is one who continues to suffer the present effects of past discrimination. An employee or group of employees may be members of an affected class when they continue to suffer adverse effects because of certain past discrimination that were based on race, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Affirmative Order
Affirmative order is an order issued by the state agency which demands that an employer or union to take specific action to cease performing and/or under the effects of an unfair labor practice.
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Ageism
Ageism means discrimination against those who are considered old.
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Aggregate Cost Method
The method also called aggregate method is projected funding technique that computers pension benefits and costs for an entire plan rather than for its individual participants.
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ALGOL
Abbreviation of algorithmic language. It is a computer language that is made up of both algebraic and English components.
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All-risk Policy
An insurance policy which covers risks of any kind, without any exclusions.
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Annuitant
One who is the recipient of annuity benefit payments is called an annuitant.
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Annuity
Annuity is the annual sum payable to a retired former employee.
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Antedate
It means to put an earlier date on a document.
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Acceptable Level of Unemployment
It means that the individual to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
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Affirmative Action
In a formal and legal sense, affirmative action connotes specific efforts to recruit, hire, and promote disadvantaged groups in order to eliminate the present effects of past discrimination.
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Agency Shop
It is a union security provision in certain collective bargaining agreements according to which the non-union employees of the bargaining unit are required to pay the union of the sum equal to union dues as a condition of continuing employment.
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Alphabetize
It is a discrimination against those whose names begin with letters at the end of the alphabet.
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Analogue
Analogue means an individual’s counterpart or opposite number in another organization.
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Analytical Estimating
It is technique of work measurement according to which the time required for performing a job is estimated on the basis of prior experience.
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Annualized Cost
Cost of anything for a 12-month period is called annualized cost. Twelve-month period may be for a calendar year, fiscal year, or the date on which a contract becomes effective, etc.
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Appellant
One who appeals a case to a higher authority is called an appellant.
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Applicant Tally
It is a tally system by which the EEO status of applicants is recorded at the time of application or interview. By periodically comparing applicant tally rates with rates of appointment and/or rejection, the progress of affirmative action recruitment effort can be measured.
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Application Blank
It is the first phase of the selection processes. If the application blank is properly completed it can serve three purposes which are as follows. Firstly, it is a formal request for employment. Secondly, it provides information that indicates the applicants fitness for the position. And lastly, it can become the basic personnel record for those applicants who are hired.
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Applied Psychology
Applied psychology is the practical use of the discoveries and principles of psychology.
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Appointing Officer
Appointing officer also called appointing authority it the person having power by law, or by law-fully-delegated authority, to make an appointment to positions in an organization.
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Aptitude Test
Ordinarily a set of separate tests designed to measure the overall ability an individual to learn.
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Arbiter
Anyone chosen to decide a disagreement.
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Arbitrability
It means whether or not an issue is covered by a collective bargaining agreement and can be heard and resolved in arbitration.
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Arbitration Clause
This is a provision of a collective bargaining agreement, which stipulates that disputes arising during the life of the contract over its interpretation are subject to arbitration. The clause may be broad enough to conclude "any dispute" or restricted to specific concerns.
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Arbitration Tribunal
The panel created to decide a dispute that has been submitted to arbitration is known as an arbitration tribunal.
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Arbitrator
One who conducts arbitration is called an arbitrator.
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Area Agreement
It is a collective bargaining agreement covering various employers and their workers in a large geographical area.
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Area of Consideration
These are geographic areas within which all candidates that meet the basic requirements for promotion to a position are given the opportunity to be considered.
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Area Wage Difference
Different pay rates for various occupations in different geographic area.
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Area Wide Bargaining
Collective bargaining between a union and the representative of an industry in the same city or locality is termed as area wide bargaining.
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Assembly Line
It is a production method that requires workers to perform a repetitive task on a product as it moves along on a conveyor belt or tract.
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Assessment Center
The term "assessment center" does not refer to a particular place. Rather, it is a process consisting of the intense observation of a subject undergoing a variety of stimulation and stress situations over a period of several days. Assessment centers have proven to be an increasingly popular way of identifying individuals having future executive potential so that they may be given the appropriate training and development assignments.
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Assignment of Wages
It is a procedure by which an employer, upon the authorization of the employee, automatically deducts a portion of the employee’s wages and pays it to a third party, usually a creditor. Such a procedure is also called as attachment of wages. However when a court orders this, the process is known as garnishment.
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Association Agreement
It is a model of standardized collective bargaining agreement put forth by an employer’s association.
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Assumption-of-Risk Doctrine
It is a common-law concept which states that an employer should not be held responsible for an accident to an employee if the employer can show that the injured employee had voluntarily accepted the hazards associated with a given job.
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Attendance Bonus
Also called attendance money, it is a possible payment to an employee that serves as inducement to regular attendance.
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Attitude Scale
It connotes any series of attitude indices that have given quantitative values relative to each other.
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Au Pair
This is a British term used to refer to a foreign girl doing light domestic tasks for a family in exchange for room and board.
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Alternate Form
It is any of two or more versions of a test that are the same with respect to the nature, number, and difficulty of the test items and that are designed to yield essentially the same scores and measures of variability for a given group. Such form is also called equivalent form or comparable form.
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Amicus Curiae
Literal meaning of the jargon is "friend of the court". It is any person or organization who is allowed to participate in a lawsuit who would not otherwise have a right to do so. Participation is usually limited to filing a brief on behalf of one side or the other.
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Applicant Pool
All those individuals who have applied for a particular job over a given period are collectively termed as applicant pool.
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Assertiveness Training
It is a training program designed to aid less assertive people communicate and express their ideas and feelings more effectively. The ideal level of assertiveness lies midway between passivity and aggressiveness.
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Attitude Survey
It is a questionnaire, usually anonymous, that elicits the opinion of employees. After completion they are summarized and analyzed to determine compliance with and attitudes towards current personnel management policies.
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Authorization Card
It is a form signed by a worker to authorize a union to represent the worker for purpose of collective bargaining.
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Automatic Checkout
This is an illegal procedure whereby the employer deducts union dues and assessments from the pay of all employees in the bargaining unit without the prior consent of each individual employee. It is also called automatic checkout.
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Automaton
Person acting mechanically in a monotonous routine without the need to use any intellectual capacities is called an automaton. The thrust of the scientific management movement was to make workers the most efficient possible automations. A significant portion of modern industrial unrest is directly related to the workforce’s resentment at being treated in such a manner.
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Average Earned Rate
Total earning for a given time period divided by the number of hours worked during the period gives the average earned rate.
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Average Incumbents
It is the average workforce strength figure found by adding the workforce strengths at the beginning and end of a specified report period and dividing this sum by two. This type of computation is widely used in turnover analysis.
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Average Straight-Time Hourly Earnings
These are average wages earned per hour exclusive of premium payments and shift differentials.
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Alleged Discriminatory Official (ADO)
He is an individual who is charged in a formal equal employment opportunity complaint to have caused or tolerated discriminatory actions.
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Alternate-Form Reliability
This is a measure of the extent to which two parallel or equivalent forms of a test are consistent in measuring what they purport to measure.
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Alternation Ranking
This is a sort of technique used in job evaluation and performance appraisal in which ranks for the highest and the lowest are assigned then ranks for the next highest and the next lowest, etc., until all jobs have been ranked.
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Archives
These are permanently available records created or received by an organization for its formal or official purposes.
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Assessments
It denotes the amount paid by union members in addition to their regular dues when a union needs funds urgently in order to support a strike or some other union endorsed cause. The amount of these assessments is usually limited by a union’s constitution and/or by laws.
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Attrition
It indicates decrease in the size of a workforce through normal processes, such as voluntary resignations, retirements, discharges for cause, transfers, and deaths.
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Automatically Programmed Tool System (APT)
It is a computer language describing the operations to be performed in English-like terms.
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Auxiliary Agency
Also called housekeeping agency or overhead agency, an auxiliary agency is an administrative unit whose prime responsibility is to serve other agencies of the greater organization. Personnel agencies are usually auxiliary, housekeeping, or overhead agencies.
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Average Hourly Earnings
These are the wages earned by an employee per hour of work during a specific time period. The average hourly earnings are computed by dividing total pay received by the total hours worked.
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AWOL
Abbreviation of absent without official leave. This term is usually restricted to the military.
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Anti-Labor Legislation
It is any law at any level of government that organized perceives to be to its disadvantage and to the disadvantage of prime union interests- better hours, wages, and working conditions. Examples would be "right-to-work" laws and "anti-strike" laws.
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Apparatchik
This is a Russian word for a bureaucrat but is now used colloquially to refer to any administrative functionary. The word as used in English seems to have no political connotations. It merely implies that the individual referred to mindlessly follows orders.
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Appellate Jurisdiction
Appellate jurisdiction refers to the power of a tribunal to review cases that have previously been decided by a lower authority.
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Applicant Population
This is the set of individuals within a geographical area, with identifiable characteristics or a mix of such characteristics, from which applicants for employment are obtained. Changes in recruiting practices may change certain characteristics of those that apply for work and therefore may change the nature of the applicant population.
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Architectural Barriers
These are physical barriers or the physical aspects of a building that might hinder or prevent the employment of a physically handicapped person. The lack of a ramp, for example, may prevent a person in a wheelchair from entering a building having only stairways for access.
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Automatic Wage Adjustment
Raising or reducing wage rates in direct response to previously determined factors such as an increase/decrease in the Consumer Price Index or the company’s profits is known as automatic wage adjustment.
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