Article: "Human Resources vocabulary".

This post lists up to 140 expressions, vocabulary, verbs, words, ... that are normally used in HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTAMENTS to be able to manage people within an organization:




A

1. Ability: Aptitude, a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level.
2. Absenteeism: A habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason. Generally, absenteeism is unplanned absences.
3. Achievement of objetives: the process of defining specific objectives within an organization that management can convey to organization members, then deciding on how to achieve each objective in sequence.
4. Alarm: A warning of danger.
5. Amazement: Great surprise and disbelief.
6. Amount: The total of something in number, size, value, or extent.
7. Anecdotes: A short story, regarded as unreliable, about real incident or person.
8. Application: The act of applying for a job.
9. Application from: A printed document with spaces in which to write when making a formal request.
10. Appraisal: A warm approbation of, commendation for, or admiration for.
11. Atmosphere (on the team): Dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude.

B

12. Bold: Highlighted in fact letters.
13. Budget:  A financial plan for a defined period of time, usually a year.
14. Business administration: The study of general business principles and practices.

C

15. Change management: A collective term for all approaches to prepare and support individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change.
16. Comparison: An act of comparing.
17. Conciliation: policies to reconcile work and family life
18. Consultant: A person who provides expert advice professionally.
19. Contact: The act of communicating with someone.
20. Contrasting: Very different.
21. Critical: Inclined to judge severely and find fault.
22. Cubicles: Small partitioned areas of a room.
23. Curriculum Vitae: (CV) An account of a person`s education, qualifications, and previous occupations, typically sent with a job application.

D

24. Dispute: Discussion, debate.
25. Deal: An agreement entered into by two or more parties for their mutual benefit.
26. Delivery system: A means or procedure for providing a product or service.
27. Development plan: Detection of training needs, planning, execution and evaluation.
28. Disciplinary measures: Application of the disciplinary regime to workers
29. Doctorate: The highest degree awarded by a university faculty or other approved educational organization.
30. Duty: Responsibility.

E

31. Efficient: Working productively with minimum wasted effort or expense.
32. Efficiency: A state of working productively with minimum wasted effort or expense.
33. Employee: Someone who is employed and works for someone.
34. Employer branding: Transfer of the corporate culture to the employee.
35. Employer: physical or legal person who hires workers for a purpose.
36. Errand runner: A person who makes short journeys in order to deliver or collect something for someone else.

F

37. Flexitime: Flexibility of working hours
38. Focused: Centred on an area of interest or activity.
39. Funding: Financial resources provided to make some project possible.

G

40. Gab year: A year during which students take time off and do something other than education and training, such a travel or vocabulary work.
41. Geographical mobility: Employee with availability to change residence to work
42. Goals: Desired results and objectives.
43. Golden handshake: A large payment made by a company to a senior executive.

H

44. Headhunting: Actively recruiting employees.
45. Health and safety: Evaluation, planning and execution of policies to protect the worker.
46. Healthy activities: Application of welfare policies in the company.
47. Help line: A telephone line operated by a commercial organization to provide information
48. Human resources department: Department to manage the people that make up an organization to promote both personal and professional growth.

I

49. Indicators: Management measurement tool to make decisions
50. Imbalance: Lack of proportion.
51. Inefficient: Not working productively with minimum wasted effort or expense.

J

52. Job advertised: When an announcement, online or in the newspaper, is made looking for candidates to fill in a certain position at a company.

L

53. Labor law: Application of labor legislation in the company.
54. Leader: Employee who leads other employees for a specific purpose.
55. Lone wolf: One who prefers go without the company or assistance of others.

M

56. Machine: An apparatus having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.
57. Main work duties: Main functions of a job.
58. Management: The control and organization of something.
59. Managerial: position Job with responsibilities of management.
60. MBA: Master of Business Administration.
61. Manufacture: Production.
62. Member: A person, country, or organization of something.
63. Mission, Vision and Values: The reason for being a company, where it want to go and its employer branding.
64. Misurderstanding: To fail to understand correctly.
65. Moddy: Characterised by frequent change in mood.
66. Motivate: To stimulate interest.
67. Motivating: Providing incentive and stimulating interest.

N

68. Next period: The division of time (year, quarter, month) coming after the present one.

O

69. On time: Do something in the stipulated time.
70. Open plan office: Any floor plant which makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices.
71. Overtime: Working hours in addition to those of a regular schedule.

P

72. Patience: The capacity to tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without becoming angry or upset.
73. Pay: The money you earn or get paid.
74. Pay increase: An instance of money paid for work becoming greater in amount.
75. Payroll: The list of paid employees.
76. Performance appraisal: A formal evaluation of an employee`s effectiveness.
77. PhD: A post graduate academic title awarded for extensive research in a specialized area and demonstrated in a doctoral thesis.
78. Policy: Development of the mission, vision and values in the company
79. Political party: A political organization that a typically seeks to influence government policy.
80. Position: A job within a company.
81. Post: Mail, letters, packages,…
82. Process: A series of actions or steps towards achieving a particular end.
83. Productivity: The effectiveness of productive effort.
84. Project: A proposed or planned undertaking.
85. Promotion: The action of raising someone to a higher position or rank.
86. Prospect: Possible future event
87. Punctual: Happening or doing something at the appointed time.

Q

88. Questionnarie: A set of printed questions devised for a statistical study.
89. Quite: Absolutely, completely.

R

90. Record employment regulations: Business adjustment for objective reasons (economic, technological, organizational or production).
91. Recruitment and selection processes: Process for the search of the ideal person for a specific position.
92. Reference: Speak about or a letter from a previous employer testifying to someone`s ability or rehability
93. Regarding: Concerning.
94. Relationship: An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.
95. Relevant: Closely connected or appropriate to the matter in hand.
96. Remuneration policies: Development of human resources policy for the adjustment between what a employee does and what is paid.
97. Responsible for: In charge of.

S

98. Scheme: A systematic plan or arrangement for putting a particular idea into effect.
99. Skills: The ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
100. Strategic objectives: Objectives of a department or group of employees so that they develop their work with a common objective and that makes the company grow.
101. Solution: A product or service designed to meet a particular need.
102. Social insurance: Economic contribution of both the employee and the company to the social security system.
103. Specific: Concrete.
104. Staff : The employees of a particular organization.
105. Strength: The quality or state of being strong. A good or beneficial quality or attribute.

T

106. Talent retention: A company's ability to attract the best employees
107. Teamwork: Ability for a group of wemployees to achieve their objectives effectively and efficiently.
108. To advertise a job: To make public announcement of a job vacancy.
109. To approach: To move closer to.
110. To arrange: To organize or plan.
111. To be beneficial: To be favourable or advantageous.
112. To be stuck: To be unable to progress.
113. To commit to: To dedicate, devote or promise  oneself to.
114. To deserve: To be worthy of something.
115. To downsize: To become smaller in size by reductions in personnel.
116. To focus: To centre attention
117. To get a degree: To receive an academic rank from a college or university.
118. To headhunt: To actively recruit personnel.
119. To increase: To make or become greater in size, amount, or degree.
120. To integrate: Establish synergies between different parties.
121. To involve: To include and make part of.
122. To lack motivation: To not show enough interest or desire.
123. To lay off: To make unemployed.
124. To liaise with: To consult, communicate and co-operate with.
125. To monitor: To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information.
126. To negotiate: Establish understanding relationships to get something with another person or group.
127. To promote: To get a better position within a company.
128. To restructure: Organize differently.
129. To save: To store up or preserve for future use.
130. To settle the dispute: To resolve the conflict.
131. To socialize: To mix socially with others.
132. To solve problems: To find solutions to difficult questions and situations.
133. To suggest a solution: To put forward for consideration a means of solving a problem.
134. To support: To back up, to help, to encourage or to approve.
135. Trade union: An association, alliance, or confederation of employees for a common purpose.
136. Training session: An individual period of time devoted to teaching a skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction.

V

137. Vacancy: An unoccupied post or job.

W

138. Weaknesses: Disadvantages or faults.
139. Working conditions: The physical environment in which staff work, including the actual space, the quality of ventilation, heat, light and degree of safety.
140. Workload: The amount of work assigned to or expected from a worker in a specified time period.