✔✔Learning management system (LMS) - ✔✔System that holds course content
information and has the capability of tracking and managing employee course
registrations, career development,and other employee development activities.
✔✔Learning organization - ✔✔Organization characterized by a capability to adapt to
changes in environment.
✔✔Lump-sum increase (LSI) - ✔✔One-time payment made to an employee; also called
performance bonus.
✔✔Market-based job evaluation - ✔✔Job evaluation method in which the relative worth
and pay structure of different jobs are based on their market value or the going rate in
the marketplace.
✔✔Maturity curves - ✔✔Correlate pay with time spent in a professional field such as
teaching or research.
✔✔Mentoring - ✔✔Developmentally oriented relationship between two individuals.
, ✔✔Merit pay - ✔✔Situation where and individual's performance on the job is the basis
for the amount and timing of pay increases; also called performance-based pay or pay
performance.
✔✔Motivation - ✔✔Factors that initiate, direct, and sustain human behavior over time.
✔✔Onboarding - ✔✔Programs that help employees develop positive working
relationships with coworkers; encompass orientation as well as the first months of an
employee's tenure in a position.
✔✔On-the-job training (OJT) - ✔✔Training provided to employees at the work site
utilizing demonstration and performance of job tasks.
✔✔Organization learning - ✔✔Certain types of learning activities or processes that may
occur at any one of several levels in an organization.
✔✔Orientation - ✔✔Process in which a new employee becomes familiar with an
organization as well as his or her department, coworkers, and the job.
✔✔Paired comparison - ✔✔Job evaluation method in which each job is compared with
every other job being evaluated; the job with the largest number of "greater than"
rankings is the highest-ranked job, etc.
✔✔Pay compression - ✔✔Occurs when there is only a small difference in pay between
employees regardless of their experience, skills, level, or seniority; also know as salary
compression.
✔✔Pay equity - ✔✔Fairness of compensation and benefits paid to employees.
✔✔Pay of performance (P4P, PfP) - ✔✔Situation where and individual's performance
on the job is the basis for the amount and timing of pay increases; also called merit pay
or performance-based pay.
✔✔Pay grades - ✔✔Used to group jobs that have approximately the same relative
internal or external worth and are paid at the same rate within the same pay range.
✔✔Pay ranges - ✔✔Set the upper and lower bounds of possible compensation for indi
✔✔Pedagogy - ✔✔Study of the education of children.
✔✔Performance bonus - ✔✔One-time payment made to an employee; also called a
lump-sum increase (LSI).