3.10 Key Terms
Key Terms
- Disabilities: Physical or mental conditions that limit a person’s movements, senses, or activities. 3.3
- Discrimination: unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, primarily based on race, age, or sex. 3.6
- Diversity: The state of having various people from various backgrounds and identities in a group or organization. 3.3
- Employment Equity Plan: A strategy or policy designed to promote equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment by eliminating discrimination. 3.3
- Employment standards: Regulations and laws governing the minimum acceptable conditions of employment, including hours of work, wages, and occupational health and safety. 3.4
- Equal opportunity: The principle of treating all people equally, without discrimination, especially in employment, education, and access to public services. 3.3
- Equity programs: Initiatives and policies promoting fairness and inclusion within organizations and institutions. 3.3
- Fair treatment: The impartial and just treatment of all people without favouritism or discrimination. 3.1
- HR Analytics: Applying data analysis techniques to human resources data to improve workforce decisions and outcomes. 3.9
- Involuntary Turnover Rate: The percentage of employees who leave an organization due to factors beyond their control, such as layoffs or termination. 3.9
- Offer Acceptance Rate: The percentage of job offers accepted by candidates. 3.9
- Pay Equity Act: Legislation aimed at ensuring that employees are paid equally for work of equal value, regardless of gender. 3.5
- Personal Questions: Inquiries into private aspects of an individual’s life, which may be considered inappropriate or intrusive in a professional context. 3.6
- Time To Fill: The amount of time it takes to fill a job vacancy from the date the job is posted to the date a candidate accepts the offer. 3.9
- Time To Hire: The duration from when a candidate first applies for a job until they accept the job offer. 3.9
