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HRM Vocab - Chapter 7
MGMT 6260
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Sociology
Graduate
05/02/2013

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Term
Employee Retention (244)
Definition
The act of keeping employees; retaining good workers is particularly important.
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Employee Separation (244)
Definition
The act of terminating the employment of workers.
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Dysfunctional Turnover (249)
Definition
Undesirable employee turnover that occurs when good employees quit.
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Voluntary Turnover (248)
Definition
Employee separation that occurs because the employee chooses to leave.
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Involuntary Turnover (248)
Definition
Employee separation that occurs because the employer chooses to terminate the employment relationship.
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Job Satisfaction (252)
Definition
Employees' feelings and beliefs about the quality of their jobs.
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Withdrawal (253)
Definition
The process that occurs when employees begin to distance themselves from the organization by working less hard and planning to quit.
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Exit Interview (255)
Definition
Face-to-face discussion conducted by an organization to learn why an employee is quitting.
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Socialization (256)
Definition
The process in which a new employee learns about an organization and develops social relationships with other organizational members.
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Perceived Organizational Support (256)
Definition
Employees' beliefs about how much their employer values their contributions and cares about their personal well-being.
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Embeddedness (259)
Definition
The extent to which an employee is tied to an organization and to the surrounding community.
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Layoffs (260)
Definition
Large-scale terminations of employment that are unrelated to job performance.
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Downsizing (260)
Definition
Widespread layoffs with the objective of permanently reducing the number of employees.
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Layoff Victims (261)
Definition
Individuals whose employment is terminated in a layoff.
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Work-role centrality (261)
Definition
The degree to which a person's life revolves around his or her job.
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Layoff Survivors (262)
Definition
Individuals who continue to work for an organization when their coworkers are laid off.
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Discipline (265)
Definition
Organizational efforts to correct improper behavior of employees.
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Due Process (265)
Definition
A set of procedures carried out in accordance with established rules and principles and aimed at ensuring fairness.
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Progressive Discipline (266)
Definition
Discipline involving successively more severe consequences for employees who continue to engage in undesirable behavior.
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Outplacement Services (268)
Definition
Professional assistance provided to help employees who have been dismissed to cope with job loss and find new positions.
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Severance Compensation (269)
Definition
Money provided to an employee as part of a dismissal package.
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