aos 2 part 1

Employee

Employees are staff/workers who have made an agreement with the
business to do the required work for compensation.

Motivation

Motivation refers to an individual's desire or drive to
achieve a goal.

Human Resource Management

the effective management of the formal relationship between the employer and employees.

HR manager:

coordinates all the activities involved in acquiring, developing, maintaining and terminating employees from a business human resources.

Motivation strategies

Motivation strategies refer to theories businesses use to motivate staff to work. To a certain degree, a high level of employee motivation can be due to effective management practices.

Performance pay:

a financial reward system for employees where some or all of their monetary compensation is related to how their performance is assessed relative to stated criteria.

Pay increases:

when an employee begins to work at a particular business the level of pay will set by either an award or an amount agreed to in an employment contract. This amount can be increased if the worker has made major contributions to the business meeting its obj

Bonus:

A one off payment for an employee given for meeting targets or for a special effort.

Commissions:

is an amount paid for accomplishing a sale, paid to the sales person who accomplished the sale, and usually calculated as a fixed percentage of the sale price.

Share plans:

A registered company can offer shares in the ownership of the business to its employees.

Profit sharing:

A business owner can offer to the employees a share of the profits that the company makes.

Training:

Training is when businesses invest resources such as money, time and
personnel into developing workers' skills or knowledge. Training is
focused on an employees current job and is aimed at improving skills,
knowledge, attitudes and behaviour to allow the

Sanction

In a business sense sanction refers to a punishment for a worker not performing as expected or not adhering to corporate governance rules.

Support

In a business context the term 'support' means positive
reinforcement for workers in the form of praise, recognition and
reward.

Career advancement

Career advancement is simply when workers can progress to a higher or more responsible position through promotion or moving to another
business.

On-the-job training

is learning from existing employees on an employee's current job how to perform this job more efficiently and effectively than before.

Off-the job training

is learning from professional instructors away from the business as to how the employee can perform this job more efficiently and effectively than before.

Performance management

is an assessment of employees present work performance and how this can be directed in the future to achieve both business and employee objectives.

Performance Appraisal:

also referred to as performance review or a performance evaluation is a method by which the job performance of an employee is documented and evaluated.

Management by objectives:

is a strategy that aims to improve performance of a business by clearly defining objectives that are agreed to by both management and employees. An important part of MBO is the measurement

Employee self-evaluation:

The purpose of self -evaluation is to get the individual to reflect on their own performance prior to a manager/employee discussion.

Employee observation:

Professional employee observation remains objective and focuses on specific, work-related behaviours that are in the worker's job description, such

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