HR Terms

Absenteeism means an employee does not turn up for work because of 'illness'.

Agile literally means nimble, supple and flexible.

Ambition means wanting to bring something about.

Company culture starts with the organisation's vision.

You want to reward the people who perform well.

You will find different definitions of competencies in different places. But what is a competency really?

Competency management means recognising, using and further developing your people's competencies.

A competency profile describes the competencies an employee needs in order to perform a particular role well.

Constructive feedback is supportive feedback intended to help identify blind spots and make the other person better.

The continuous dialogue means that, as a manager, you are constantly talking with your people about growth and development.

Employee happiness is about more than simply enjoying the work you do.

An employee journey is the journey people travel within an organisation.

Retention is an organisation's ability to keep its people. It is usually expressed as a percentage.

Put simply, turnover is the number of employees who leave your company and have to be replaced within a given period.

You have probably come across it before: feedback, or giving someone a response to their work.

A feedback app for giving 360-degree feedback. That is what Treams offers you.

In many organisations, creating a feedback culture is high on the HR department's wish list.

A hierarchical structure shows a clear set of relationships between the people in an organisation.

HR department is short for Human Resource (Management) department, also known as personnel or people affairs.

Human Resource Management is the discipline of recruiting, hiring, deploying and managing people within an organisation.

The OKR method (short for 'objectives and key results') links your organisation's goals to measurable results.

A performance appraisal is a conversation between an employee and their manager.

Performance management is a process that centres on people and goals.

A performance rating system gives organisations insight into individual performance as well as the organisation's own results and goals.

A performance review is a conversation between an employee and their manager.

The performance review cycle covers every moment when managers talk with their people about their development.

There are two different kinds: workforce productivity and personal productivity.

Self-management: a term you keep hearing. But what does self-management actually mean?

Strategic workforce planning is the process of making sure the right person is in the right place in the organisation.

Sustainable employability means attracting the right people and helping them perform at their best throughout their working life.

In many cases it is a synonym for 'intelligence', for being clever or for being good at something.

Talent development is about how an organisation handles the talent it has and creates room for that talent to grow.

A talent review is one component of strategic workforce planning.

'The good conversation' is a term you hear more and more these days.

More and more organisations are moving away from traditional appraisals and adopting the new way of appraising.