Glossary of HR definitions and terms — from A to Z

A

Absence management

Absenteeism

Action Learning Sets

Affiliative Leadership

What Is Affinity Bias?

Alpha Generation

Ambassador

Annual Leave

Annualised Hours

Applicant Screening

Assessment Center

Associative Discrimination

ATS (Applicant Tracking System)

ATS Resume

Attachment of Earnings

Attendance

Attendance system

What Is Attrition

B

Baby Boomers

Bad Reference

Behavioral Interview

Benefits

Benefits administration

Benefits of Coaching In the Workplace

What is Biweekly Pay? Understanding the Benefits and Challenges

Blue collar

Bossing

Bradford Factor

Business Intelligence

C

Calculation of leave

Career Progression

Carrying Over Annual Leave

Change Management

Chief People Officer

Cloud First Strategy

Coaching Models

Code of Ethics

Compassionate Leave

Competence

Competency Management

Compliance

Compulsory Redundancy

Contingent Workers

Corporate Culture

What Is Corporate Training?

Corporation

CSDR

Cultural Fit Interview Questions

Cultural Web Model

D

Data Protection Policy

Data Retention Policy

Development Center

Difference Between Full-Time and Part-Time

What Is Digital Detox?

Digital Nomad

Digital signature

Direct Earnings Attachment

Disciplinary Hearings

Discretionary Bonuses

Discretionary Time Off (DTO)

Diversity

Duvet Day

E

E‑learning

What Is an EAP?

Emergency Leave

Emotional Intelligence

Employee attrition

Employee attrition

Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement Metrics

Employee records

Employee Retention

Employee retention rate

Employer Branding

Employer of Choice

Employment contract

Employment Status

Equal Opportunities Policy

ESG

F

Feedback

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Fire and Rehire

First Aid in the Workplace

Fit Note

Fixed-Term Contract

Floating Holiday

FTE

Full-time hours

Funnel Conversion Rate

G

Gamification

Garden Leave

Generation X

Generation Y

Generation Z

Goleman Leadership Styles

Gross Misconduct

Gross Salary

Grow Model Questions

Guaranteed Minimum Wage

H

Hackman and Oldham Model

Hard and Soft HRM

Hard HRM

Holiday Accrual

Holiday Pay

Holiday Request Form

Holiday Requests

Holiday Tracker

Homeoffice

Hot Desking

HR

What Is HR Analytics

What Is an HR Audit

HR Automation

HR Costs

What are HR dashboards?

HR department structure

HR Metrics

HR News

HR Portal

HR Processes

HR Service Delivery

HR Shared Services

HR Software

What is HRIS?

HRis Implementation

HRMS

What Is Human Resource Management

Human Resources

Human Resources Function

Human Resources Technology

Hybrid Recruiting

Hybrid Work Policy

Hybrid working

I

ICF

Imposter Syndrome

Inclusion

Indirect Discrimination

Induction Checklist

Insourcing

Insubordination

Insubordination at Work

Internal Knowledge Base

Internal recruitment

Interview Feedback Examples

J

What Is a Job Description?

Job Design

Job Enrichment

Job Interview

Job Requisition Process

K

Know-how

Kudos

Kurzarbeit

L

Labour Law

What Is Labour Law

Labour Turnover

Leadership

Leadership Behaviours

Leave management system

Leave of absence for mental health

Leave of Absence Meaning: HR Definitions, Types, and Best Practices

Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion

LinkedIn

M

Mediation

Medical leave of absence

Mentoring

What Is a Merit Increase

Micromanagement

Millennial

Minimum Wage in Texas

Minimum wage in the UK

Mobbing

Multiposting

Multitasking

N

What Is an NDA

Net Salary

Networking

Notice Period Calculator

O

Offboarding

Offboarding Process

OHS

OKRs

On-target Earnings

What Is Onboarding

Onboarding Pack

Onboarding Program

Organisational chart

Organisational Strategy

Organizational Design

Organizational structure

OTE

Outcomes vs Outputs

Outsourcing

P

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Part-Time

Participative Leadership

Pay Reviews

Pay Slips

Pay stub

What Is Payroll?

People Manager

People Operations

People Practices

People Strategy

The Complete Guide to Per Diem: What Is Per Diem and How It Works

What Is Performance Management

Permanent Contracts

Personnel system

Phased Return to Work

Pillars of Wellbeing

Predictive Analytics in HR: From Reactive to Proactive Talent Strategy

Proactive Recruiting

Probation Review Meeting

Probationary Periods

Professional Ethics

Professional Self-Presentation

Psychological contract

Pulse Survey Template

Q

Quiet hiring

Quiet quitting

R

Recruitment

Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment Funnel

Recruitment KPIs

Recruitment Methods

Recruitment Process

Redundancy Payment

Remote Job

Remuneration

Remuneration Packages

Revenue Per Employee

Right to work in the uk

S

Sabbatical Leave

Salary Bands

Salary Benchmarking

Salary increase letter

Selection Process

What Is Semi-Monthly Pay?

Severance Pay UK

Shadowing

Share code check

Shift planning

Shortlisting

Sick Note

What Is Sick Pay?

Situational Leadership

Skill Will Matrix

Skills Audit

Skills Gap Analysis

Skills Mapping

Skills Matrix

Soft HRM

What is Soft Skills Management

Staff Appraisals

Staff Holiday Planner

Staff Management Strategies

Staff Recruitment

Start-up

Strategic Human Resource Management

Strategic Work

Stress Leave from Work

Summary dismissal

Super Gross Salary

Swing Shift

T

What is a Talent Acquisition Specialist?

Talent Pipeline

What Is a Talent Pool

Team Effectiveness Models

Team structure

Teambuilding

Temporary Part-Time Employment

Termination of Employment

The Complete Guide: What Does Furlough Mean and What to Do

The irreplaceable role of leaders

Time Management

Time Off In Lieu

Time Tracking

Training Matrix

Trial period

Turquoise company

Types of Feedback

Types of Leave

U

UK Scale-up Visa

UK Tax Codes

Ulrich Model

Unauthorised Absence

Underperforming Employees

Understanding a Payslip

Understanding the 9 Box Model in Human Resource Management

Unfair Treatment at Work

Upskilling Training

V

Verbal Warning at Work

Voluntary Redundancy

What is VTO?

W

Wage Slip

Wage Statement

Welfare

Wellbeing

What Is an HR Manager? Inside the Role, Skills, and Career Path

What Is HR Data Analytics? Turning Workforce Data Into Smarter People Decisions

What is Job Offer Letters

Whistleblowing

What is Work Ethic?

Work Psychology

Work Rota

Work-life balance

Workforce Optimisation

Workforce Planning Tools

Working in Silos

Written Warning

Z

Zero Hours Contract

1

1250l Tax Code

3

360 Degree Appraisal: A Practical Guide to Modern Multi-Rater Feedback

9

9‑Box Grid