all the activites involved in aquireing, developing, and maintaining an organizations human resources
human resource planning
the development of strategies to meet a firms furure human resource needs
replacement chart
a list of key personel and there possible replacements within a firm
skills inventory
a computerized data bank containing information on the skills and experience of all present employees
cultural (workplace) diversity
differences among people in a workforce owing to race, ethnicity, and gender
job analysis
a systematic rocedure for studying jobs to determine their various elements and requirements
job description
a list of the elements that make up a particular job
job specifications
a list of specifications required to preform a particular job
wage survey
a collection of data prevailing wage rates within an industry or a geographic area
compensation system
the policies and strategies that determine employee compensation
job evaluation
the process of determining the relative worth of the various jobs within a firm
comparable worth
a concept that seeks equal compensation for jobs requireing about the same level of education, training, and skills
flexable benifit plan
compensation plan whereby an employee recieves a predetermined amount of benifit dollars to spend on a package of benfits he or she has selected to meet individual needs
management development
the process of preparing managers and other professionals to assume oncreased responsibility in both present and future positions
preformance appraisel
the evaluation of employees' current and potential levels of preformance to allow mangers to make objective human resources decisions