Glossary

If you want to succeed at work, you need to know the vocabulary. Use this human resources glossary to learn essential terms about development, labor relations, and benefits.

  • Use a Brown Bag Lunch for Internal Training
  • Businessman presenting ideas at whiteboard
    Cafeteria-Style Benefit Plans
  • people clapping at work
    The Power of Positive Employee Recognition
  • Manager conducting an employee evaluation.
    The 5 Goals of Employee Performance Evaluation
  • Businesswoman leading meeting in startup office
    What Makes Up Your Company Culture?
  • Businesswoman leading meeting in conference room
    The Roles and Responsibilities of a Meeting Leader
  • Woman using a well-organized agenda to run a successful meeting in an office.
    How to Develop an Effective Meeting Agenda
  • Pyramid of workers building up to a manager on the top level signifying the internal management process.
    How to Develop Company Managers
  • Active listening is a skill that every employee needs to acquire as demonstarted by this female employee.
    How to Become an Effective Active Listener
  • Low Section Of People Waiting For Interview On Chair
    Positives and Negatives About Job Descriptions
  • Businesswoman and two businessmen are using a laptop to write the requirements that their job analysis has identified.
    How to Do a Job Analysis
  • Getting laid off is the most stressful thing that could happen to this woman who has boxed up her personal items.
    Requirements of the WARN Act
  • Businessman seated at workstation studying plans
    How and Why to Give Two Weeks' Notice
  • Teammates push each other in office chairs during a team building exercise.
    What Is Team Building?
  • A woman is talking on her cell phone while working on a laptop.
    What Are References?
  • Employee being promoted at work
    An Employee Promotion Recognizes Their Contribution to the Firm
  • A woman is holding a phone intervew with a prospective employee.
    How to Use a Phone Interview as a Job Applicant Screening Tool
  • What Is Performance Management at Work?
    Performance Management
  • Employee paycheck shows payroll taxes and deductions.
    Payroll Taxes and Deductions
  • A women processing payroll files at her desk
    The Purpose and Contents of an Employee Payroll File
  • restaurant employee looks over paperwork to calculate tips
    Everything You Need to Know About Payroll Deductions
  • Grid of hexagonal portraits of people with a hand adding new person.
    Understanding HR and Management Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Men in the warehouse using a digital tablet.
    What Are Non-Exempt Employees?
  • Employee orientation at a computer
    New Employee Orientation: Employee Onboarding
  • Wait staff handing trays to coworker in a cafe
    What Is a Minimum Wage?
  • Doctor Looking through Medical Records
    What Information Is Stored in Employee Medical Records?
  • Female employee meeting with female human resources manager in office
    Managing Human Resources
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    Mission Is What You Do at Work
  • Employers need to determine if their candidate is a good fit for their job.
    Assess Job Fit When You Select Your Employees
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    5 Key Steps to Enrich Your Job
  • Young professionals stand in a circle with arms raised in an icebreaker activity
    What Is an Icebreaker?
  • Army human resources specialist
    Human Resources Command
  • Tell us why we should hire you?
    Hiring Freeze and Its Purpose
  • Two women work on learning the new Human Resources Management Information System (HRIS)
    Human Resources Information System (HRIS)
  • Climbers reaching the top of a mountain
    How to Set and Achieve Goals
  • Coworkers sitting around conference table with a facilitator leading
    What Facilitation Is and How It Is Useful to Employers?
  • Application holding a resume reaching out for a handshake.
    Employment Verification and Sample Policy
  • a grid of hexagonal portraits, hand adding new one
    The Purpose of an Employee Handbook
  • Businesswoman blowing nose in office
    Excused Absence From Work
  • Woman and man talking at desk in office during employee evaluation
    Employee Evaluation
  • Employer of Choice
    Are You an Employer of Choice?
  • Late for meeting
    Reprimands Can Help Employees Improve Performance
  • Businesswomen working in office
    What Exactly Is Employee Motivation?
  • Middle agedman and woman fly a colorful kite on a beach
    Early Retirement Is an Option for Some Employees
  • Workers with various jobs wear appropriate business attire within the guidelines of their dress code.
    Your Dress Code Provides a Guide for Employees
  • You need to create documentation about employee performance as close to the incident as possible so that the documentation is accurate.
    The Importance of Documentation in Human Resources
  • a woman depicted doing different duties at work
    How to Tap Into Employee Discretionary Energy
  • Effective interpersonal communication means that the participants end up sharing meaning.
    The Components of Communication in the Workplace
  • Female architect with blueprint leading meeting in open plan loft office
    Cultural Fit Assessment When Interviewing Candidates
  • Organizational hierarchy chart.
    Understanding the Chain of Command in Your Workplace
  • Five coworkers dressed in business casual attire looking at a speaker.
    What Is Business Casual Attire?
  • Training new employee
    How On-the-Job Training Brings You Value
  • Two workers having a conversation.
    How to Issue a Verbal Warning for Poor Performance
  • An empty desk in an office where an absent employee usually sits.
    Absenteeism Is When Employees Don't Come to Work
  • Young professionals working together reviewing renter insurance
    How HR Can Help Create an Agile Future at Work
  • Senior job searcher's resume CV.
    Working With Recruiters
  • businesswoman working at open space desk
    Similarities and Differences Between the CCBA Vs CBAP
  • Person taking a test filling in circles with a pencil
    Taking a Personality Inventory
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