Human Resources Unit 1 Vocabulary

To perform the five basic functions: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. 

• Authority

• Organisation

• Staff Manager

• Management Process

Traditionally gives managers the right to issue orders to other managers or employees.

• Line Authority

• Ethics

• Staff Authority

• Manager

A group consisting of people with formally assigned roles who work together to achieve the organization’s goals

• Line Manager

• Strategic Human Resource Management

• Organisation

• Employment Engagement

A manager who assists and advises line managers.

• Line Manager

• Staff Manager

• Manager

• Authority

The right to make decisions, to direct the work of others, and to give orders. 

• Management Process

• Ethics

• Authority

• Strategic Human Resource Management

Someone who is responsible for accomplishing the organization’s goals, and who does so by managing the efforts of the organization’s people.

• Ethics

• Manager

• Staff Manager

• Organisation

The process of acquiring, training, appraising, and compensating employees, and of attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.

• Human Resource Management (HRM)

• Employment Engagement

• Ethics

• Authority

The principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; specifically, the standards you use to decide what your conduct should be

• Line Authority

• Line Manager

• Manager

• Ethics

The extent to which an organization’s employees are psychologically involved in, connected to, and committed to getting their jobs done. 

• Employment Engagement

• Management Process

• Ethics

• Organisation

A manager who is authorized to direct the work of subordinates and is responsible for accomplishing the organization’s tasks.

• Staff Manager

• Manager

• Line Manager

• Employment Engagement