business studies chapter 8
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| Recruitment | Process from identifying that the business needs to employ up to the point which applications have arrived at the business |
| Job analysis | Identifies and records the responsibilities and tasks relating to a job |
| Job description | Outline the responsibilities and duties to be carried out by someone employed to do a specific job |
| Job specification | Document which outlines requirements, qualifications, expertise ect for a specific job |
| Internal recruitment | When a vacancy is filled by someone who is an existing employee of the business |
| External recruitment | When a vacancy is filled by someone who is not an existing employee of the business |
| Part-time job | Employment is often considered to be between 1 and 30-35 hours a week |
| Full time | Employees will usually work 35 hours or more a week |
| Introduction training | Introduction given to a new employee explaining the firm's activities, customs , procedures and introducing them to their fellow workers |
| On-the-job training | Occurs by watching a more experienced worker doing the job |
| Off-the-job training | Involves being trained away from the workplace, usually by specialist trainers |
| Workforce planning | Establishing the workforce needed by the business for the foreseeable future in terms of the number and skills of the employee required |
| Redundancy | When an employee is no longer needed and so loses their job. It is not due to their work being unsatisfactory |
| Ethical decision | Decision taken by a manager or a company because of the moral code observed by the firm |
| Industrial tribunal | Legal meeting which consider workers complain of unfair dismissal or discrimination at work |
| Contract of employment | Legal agreement between employer and employee listing the rights and responsibilities of workers |