Glossary of
HR terms and definitions
Defined in plain, easy-to-understand language.
Glossary of
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- Ability Test
- Absconding
- Absence Management
- Absenteeism
- Absenteeism Policy
- Action Item
- Active Listening
- Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP)
- Administrative Services Only (ASO)
- Advanced Earned Income Credit
- Affirmative Action Plan
- Ageism
- Agile Organization
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
- Annual Appraisal
- Annual Income
- Annualized Salary
- Applicant Tracking System
- Attendance Allowance
- Attendance Policy
- Attrition
- Autonomous Worker
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- Back of House (BOH)
- Background Check
- Badge Time Clock
- Balanced Scorecard
- Base Salary
- Behavioral Competencies
- Behavioral Skills
- Bereavement Leave
- Bi-Monthly Pay
- Bi-Weekly Pay
- Biometric Time Clock
- Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
- Bonus
- Boomerang Employee
- Breach of Contract of Employment Letter
- Break
- Broadbanding
- Burnout
- Business Plan
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
c
- Career Development Discussion
- Career Fair
- Career Path
- Career Plan
- Change Management
- Clopening Shifts
- Co-optation
- Compensation
- Compensation Policy
- Compensatory Leave
- Competency
- Competency-Based Pay
- Conditions of Employment
- Confidentiality Agreement
- Contingent Worker
- Continuous Professional Education
- Corporate Culture
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Cost-Per-Hire
- CRM
- Cross-Functional Team
- Customer Retention
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- E-Recruitment
- E-Reputation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Employability
- Employee Appreciation
- Employee Background Check
- Employee Database
- Employee Empowerment
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Leave Schedule
- Employee Lifecycle
- Employee Management
- Employee Net Promoter Score
- Employee Record
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Relations
- Employee Retention
- Employee Retention Management
- Employee Retention Rate
- Employee Satisfaction Survey
- Employee Time Clock App
- Employee Training Plan
- Employee Turnover
- Employee Value Proposition
- Employee Write-Up
- Employees Incentives
- Employer Branding
- Employment Contract
- Employment Status
- Evidence of Insurability
- Executive Compensation
- Exempt Employee
- Exit Interview
- Expense Account
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- Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Passive Candidate
- Paternity Leave
- Pay Period
- Pay Policy
- Payroll
- Payroll Deduction
- Payroll software
- Payslip
- Pension Plan
- Per Diem
- Per Diem Rate
- Performance Evaluation
- Performance Management
- Performance Review
- Pre-Employment Test
- Presenteeism
- Procrastination
- Productivity Ratio
- Professional Development
- PTO
- Public Holiday
- Punch Clock
- Punch Time Clock
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- Sabbatical Leave
- Salaried Employee
- Salary VS Hourly
- Schedule Maker
- Schedule Management
- Scheduling Software
- Seasonal Employment
- Sense of Belonging
- Sensitivity Training
- Severance Pay
- Shift Bidding
- Shift Work
- Sick Leave
- Sick Leave Pay
- Skill-Based Pay
- Skills Assessment
- Skills Gap
- Skills Mapping
- Social Audit
- Social Media Background Check
- Soft Skills
- Staff Scheduling
- Staffing Plan
- Stay Interview
- Strategic HR Management
- Structured Interview
- Substitute Caregiver
- Succession Planning
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- Talent Pool
- Talent Retention
- Tangible Rewards
- Team Bonding Activities
- Team Building
- Technical Skills
- Telework
- Termination
- Termination Letter
- Termination of Contract Letter
- Time and Attendance
- Time and Attendance Management
- Time and Attendance Software
- Time Clock Software
- Time Management Software
- Time Off
- Time Theft
- Timesheet
- Timesheet Software
- Total Payroll
- Training and Development
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