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| an organization's workers (its employees and the people who have contracts to work at the organization). |
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| individuals who are actively seeking employment |
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| high-performance work systems |
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| organizations that have the best possible fit between their social system (people and how they interact) and technical system (equipment and processes). |
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| employees whose main contribution to the organization is specialized knowledge, such as knowldedge of customers, a process, or a profession. |
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| giving employees responsibility and authority to make decisions regarding all aspects of product development or customer service |
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| the assignment of work to groups of employees with various skills who interact to assemble a product or provide a service. |
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| a companywide effort to continually improve the ways people, machines, and systems accomplish work |
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| a complete review of the organization's critical work processes to make them more efficient and able to deliver higher quality |
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| the practice of having another company (a vendor, third-party provider, or consultant) provide services. |
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| moving operations from the country where a company is headquartered to a country where pay rates are lower but the necessary skills are available. |
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| employees who take assignments in other countries |
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| human resource information system |
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| human resource information system |
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| a computer system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve, and distribute information related to an organization's human resources. |
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| electronic human resource management |
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| electronic human resource management |
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| the processing and transmission of digitized HR information, especially using computer networking and the internet |
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| system in which employees have online access to information about HR issues and go online to enroll themselves in programs and provide feedback through surveys. |
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| a description of what an employee expects to contribute in an employment relationship and what the employer will provide the employee in exchange for those contributions. |
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| alternative work arrangements |
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| methods of staffing other than the traditional hiring of full-time employees (for example, use of independent contractors, on-call workers, temporary workers, and contract company workers.) |
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