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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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49. Indicators: Management measurement tool to make decisions
50. Imbalance: Lack of proportion.
51. Inefficient: Not working productively with minimum wasted effort or expense.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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68. Next period: The division of time (year, quarter, month) coming after the present one.
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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.
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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.
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88. Questionnarie: A set of printed questions devised for a statistical study.
89. Quite: Absolutely, completely.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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137. Vacancy: An unoccupied post or job.
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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.