Glossary for HR (R - W)

R

Recruitment: The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for a position.

Redundancy: Eliminating jobs or job categories as they become unnecessary to the functioning of an organization.

Risk Management: The use of insurance and other strategies to minimize an organizations exposure to liability in the event a loss or injury occurs.

 

S

Scheduled Leave: Excused absences from regular work hours scheduled in advance by an employee for such things as vacation, medical appointments, etc.

SHRM: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management with more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries.

Situational Leadership: A management theory stating that effective leadership varies, but is task-relevant, and the most successful leaders are those that adapt their leadership style to the maturity of their audience.

Skills Gap: The difference between the skills required for a job and the actual skills possessed by the employee.

Social Security Organisation (SOCSO): also known as PERKESO (Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial), was established to provide social security protections to all employees/workers in Malaysia.

Staffing: A method of finding, evaluating, and establishing a working relationship with future employees. They may be current employees or future employees.

Suspension: An employee is sent home for a period of time, usually without pay, as a disciplinary measure.

Systemic discrimination: A pattern of discrimination that permeates workplace practices, and is not apparent at first glance, but is actually systematic in its application of policies and practices.
 

T

Talent Management: Also called Human Capital Management, the process of recruiting, managing, assessing, developing and maintaining employees.

Team building: A philosophy of job design which fosters teamwork to create a work culture that values collaboration. It is a training program designed to encourage employees to view themselves as members of interdependent teams instead of as individual workers.

Total Remuneration: An employee’s complete annual pay package, including benefit and pension plans, bonuses, incentives, and paychecks.

Total Compensation: Total Compensation is the complete pay package for employees, beyond just salary. This includes all forms of money, benefits, services, and other “perks”.

Training and Development: Providing information and instruction that equips employees to better perform specific tasks or attain a higher level of knowledge.

Training Needs Analysis: An assessment to determine the training needs of a group of employees, taking into account the employees’ prior education and skills and the desired outcome once training is completed.

Transformational Leadership: A systematic form of leadership that enhances the motivation, morale and performance of followers through change, innovation, and group dynamics.

Transitional Employment: The arrangement of lessened or altered duties for an employee who has been absent from the workplace because of illness or injury, but has been given leave by their medical provider to return.

Turnover: The number of employees lost and gained over a given time period.

 

U

Union: Workers who organize a united group, usually related to the kind of work they do, to collectively bargain for better work conditions, pay or benefit increases, etc.

Unjustifiable dismissal: Firing an employee in a way that the courts do not find justifiable (i.e. unfairly or in violation of the employment contract).

Unscheduled leave: Absence from work during regular work hours that was not scheduled in advance by the employee (e.g. sickness). Absences are generally accepted and sometimes compensated if their frequency and rationale fall within an organization’s attendance policy.
 

V

Voluntary Benefits: Benefits that are paid for by the employee through payroll deductions. The employer pays for administration. Examples of these benefits include life insurance, dental, and vision.

Volunteerism: How a company supports an employee who wishes to volunteer or otherwise offer unpaid services to a community organization, often by providing paid leave of sponsorship.

Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS): A scheme where employees are allowed to resign voluntarily from an organization by receiving fair compensation

 

W

Wellness programs: programs offered by an employer that are designed to promote health or prevent disease. The program allows an employer or plan to offer individuals premium discounts, cash rewards, gym memberships, and other incentives to participate.

Whistleblower: An employee who publicly reveals a perceived wrongdoing, misconduct or unethical activity within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority. Whistleblowers are protected from retaliation by the Protected Disclosures Act of 2000.

Work-Life Balance: The attempt to balance work and personal life in order to have a better quality of life. A person with a balanced life is an asset to his or her business, as he or she experiences greater fulfillment at work and at home.

Workforce Planning: The assessment of the current workforce in order to predict future needs. This can consist of both demand planning and supply planning. Many e-recruitment software providers include modules for workforce planning.

Wrongful Termination: A legal term referring to when an employee was fired for an illegal reason.

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