Employment

No matter how successful you are, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Business brief

HR – Human Resources / Personnel - the department in a company that chooses people for jobs and deals with their complaints, problems etc

facilitator for smth - someone who helps a group of people discuss things with each other or do something effectively, to facilitate smth, facilitation

recruitment, to recruit - to find new people to work in a company, join an organization, do a job

department, departmental managers, recruit

to administer payment systems

in conjunction with - working, happening, or being used with someone or something else = in tandem with smb/smth

performance appraisal reviews, to appraise - formal to officially judge how successful, effective, or valuable something is [= evaluate]

to provide training

coaching - the process of helping someone prepare for an important test or prepare what they should say or do in a particular situation

mentoring - a system where people with a lot of experience, knowledge etc advise and help other people at work or young people preparing for work

industrial relations

complaints or disputes procedures

to dismiss smb - to remove someone from their job for doing smth wrong [= fire, sack]

selection procedures

to implement policies of empowerment, implement a policy/plan/decision etc, implementation

to empower smb to do smth, empowerment

to eliminate racial and sexual discrimination in hiring and promotion

to fight harassment, harassment - when someone behaves in an unpleasant or threatening way towards you (e.g. because of someone's sex or race)

to downsize - a company or organization downsizes, it reduces the number of people it employs in order to reduce costs

to delayer - to produce a lean or flat organization

to arrange severance packages for smb, severance pay/package - money or other things that you get when you have to leave a company because your employer no longer has a job for you

redundant - if you are redundant, your employer no longer has a job for you, to make smb redundant

outplacement - a service that a company provides to help its workers find new jobs when it cannot continue to employ them

freelancer - working independently for different companies rather than being employed by one particular company (portfolio worker)

to outsource, outsourcing - when a company uses workers from outside the company to do a job

to do some activities in-house

flexibility, to work flexi-time = to be on flexi-time

lifetime employment

to maintain one’s employability

Motivating high-calibre staff

caliber - the level of quality or ability that someone or something has achieved; of somebody's caliber: Where will we find another man of his calibre?

to develop winning strategies, to ensure competitive advantage

pep talks – inf. a short talk intended to encourage people to do smth

to push one’s organization to greater heights

rival companies, rival - a person, group, or organization that you compete with in sport, business, a fight etc [= competitor]

to headhunt, headhunter - someone who finds people with the right skills and experience to do particular jobs, and who tries to persuade them to leave their present jobs

to be indifferent to the agenda of would be high performance

to motivate, motivation, motivator, to demotivate, to seek motivation from other sources

to take a good financial package for granted

empowerment, to empower - to give someone more control over their own life or situation; to give a person or organization the legal right to do something

curriculum vitae - a formal British expression for CV [= resume American English - a short written account of your education and your previous jobs that you send to an employer when you are looking for a new job]

regeneration, to regenerate - to make something develop and grow strong again

commitment - the hard work and loyalty that someone gives to an organization, activity etc

to fast-track, fast-track (adj.) – happening, making progress more quickly than is usual

to depend on good administrative support

efficient, inefficient, efficiency - the quality of doing something well and effectively, without wasting time, money, or energy

to win loyalty from high performers

The money move

raise - American English an increase in the money you earn [= rise British English]

to boost smth (the salary, the morale of smb) - to increase or improve something and make it more successful

morale - the level of confidence and positive feelings that people have, especially people who work together, who belong to the same team etc, boost/raise/improve/build morale, maintain/keep up/restore morale

to enhance one’s prospects for success / productivity - to improve

the golden rule

to offer value based on qualifications and achievements

mortgage - a legal arrangement by which you borrow money from a bank or similar organization in order to buy a house, and pay back the money over a period of years

to fall within certain categories

to retain the present relationships, to retain - to keep something or continue to have something

to be a cost-cutter

the company’s bottom line, the bottom line - used to tell someone what the most important part of a situation is, or what the most important thing to consider is

R and D – research and documentation

to pinpoint one’s worth in the marketplace, to pinpoint - to discover or explain exactly the real facts about something or the cause of a problem; to find or show the exact position of something

to enter into any salary negotiations

to be a taboo topic, taboo - a taboo subject, word, activity etc is one that people avoid because it is extremely offensive or embarrassing

to be underpaid compared to peers, peers - [usually plural] formal your peers are the people who are the same age as you, or who have the same type of job, social class etc

at random - without any definite plan, aim, or pattern

to take the plunge - to decide to do something important or risky, especially after thinking about it for a long time

to confront smb/smth - to deal with something very difficult or unpleasant in a brave and determined way; to face someone in a threatening way, as though you are going to attack them