WorksheetsHR terms every HR should know
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
This term refers to the voluntary and involuntary terminations, deaths and employee retirements that result in a reduction to the employer's physical workforce.
Termination
Resignation
Attrition
Separation
This is the final meeting between management and an employee leaving the company. Information is gathered to gain insight into work conditions and possible changes or solutions, and the employee has a chance to explain why he or she is leaving.
Exit Interview
Clearance System
Open Forum
Resignation Meeting
A complaint brought forward by an employee about an alleged violation of law or dissatisfaction with work conditions
Discipline
Complaint
Incident Report
Grievance
This data-driven approach collects and analyzes data on workers to help companies effectively manage employees and make organizational decisions.
HR Data Bank
HR Analytics
Data Management
HR Information System
The practice of identifying the skills and talents needed to keep the organization moving toward its goals, plus hiring, developing, and retaining employees with those necessary skills and talents.
Talent Sourcing
Talent Management
Interview
Examination
The process of moving a new hire from applicant to employee status, ensuring that paperwork is done and orientation is completed.
Pre-employment
Interview
Hiring
Onboarding
The process of identifying long-range needs and cultivating a supply of internal talent to meet those future needs. It assists in finding, assessing and developing the individuals necessary to the strategy of the organization.
Sourcing
Strategic Planning
Succession Planning
Talent Management
This process is the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved performance in the work environment.
Training
Recruitment
Employee Relations
Benefits
The process of identifying, observing, measuring, and developing human performance in organizations. The identification process involves determining what areas to focus on, including identifying performance dimensions and developing rating scales. It provides the basis for a variety of personnel actions, such as training, salary increases, layoffs, and terminations.
Learning & Development
Organizational Development
Performance Appraisal
Developmental Assignment
The belief that people are not born with a static skillset: but rather, that new abilities can be learned and earned.
Growth Mindset
Resilience
Attitude
Knowledge & Skills
The guiding principles of an organization that help shape what work a company does and how they do it. These can also act as a guiding light for the business in ambiguous or difficult situations.
Quality Policy
Company Mission
Core Values
Company Vision
An organization’s purpose and reason for being: its ultimate goal.
Company Mission
Company Vision
Core Values
Quality Policy
Where an organization envisions itself in the future when it achieves its mission.
Company Mission
Company Vision
Core Values
Company Culture
The personality of a company. It encompasses the work environment as well as values, ethics, expectations, models of communication and recognition, and more.
Core Values
Company Culture
Company Mission
Quality Policy
A survey measures not just employees’ satisfaction, but also their commitment to your organization’s mission, trust in leadership, and the value they place on their work.
Employee Engagement Survey
Performance Appraisal
Training Survey
Training Effectiveness
