HSLU 4. Semester BB ENGLISCH HR

a measure of achievement that can be attributed to an individual, team, or department

companies whose success derives from their ability to create new knowledge, and use this as the basis for new products and services

work that provides goods and services performed in return for money; AmE: --bor

dismiss sb due to shortage of work

holiday, or permission to be away from work for special reasons (e.g. maternity )

manager who is in charge of accomplishing the basic goals of the organisation

action of an employer who closes his premises until the workers accept particular conditions (eg lower pay/longer hours)

a highly skilled and desirable job that stereotypically requires the use of an Apple Mackintosh computer.

a pejorative term for a low-paid, low-skill job in the service sector, typified by those in a large fast food outlets (McDonald’s).

a system in which employees have specific aims and their performance is evaluated according to whether they achieve them (abbreviation: MBO)

a person whose ideas and opinions have had an influence on business managers and who has become a well-known figure as a result.

consists of words and phrases that prevent wider understanding of particular ideas or actions

is the preferred way of managing people that has been adopted either by an individual or by the whole organization

work done by using one's hands to do the job

an organization system in which people have responsibility to both a task or project and to their department

a means of resolving disputes between employers and trade unions which represents a “halfway house” between conciliation and arbitration

experienced person advising and helping others

superior performance record

the propensity of a trade union or groups of workers to engage in strike action and other forms of industrial action

a term used to describe a person’s way of thinking that remains relatively fixed

a published declaration of the organization’s goals

the career path that many women employees find themselves pursuing after they have given birth to a child

secretly doing extra work for another employer and (usually) being paid cash in hand

the level of satisfaction or contentment of a person or a company's workforce (which can be high or low, raised or lowered, etc.) /mo'ra:l/

give someone a reason or incentive for doing something

is undertaking several work activities in any one period of working time

the process of reducing the number of employees through a combination of three techniques: recruitment freeze, voluntary redundancy, and early retirement

the action of appointing and promoting family and relatives

the process of establishing useful links and contacts with various individuals in key roles in different organizations in order to enhance one’s career opportunities

length of time that one has to work between the date when one resigns or is dismissed and the date when one actually leaves the company

or goals specify what is to be achieved and when

a job or profession, used especially on official forms or for writing about the jobs people do

(only before a noun) related to someone’s job

the outsourcing of work previously performed by a directly employed workforce to a subcontracting organization, located in another country, overseas