Unit Vocabulary

3. A fixed regular payment (often monthly) paid to an employee, usually for professional or office work, regardless of hours worked each week.
7. Moving workers between different tasks or jobs so they learn new skills and avoid boredom.
8. Making a job more interesting and challenging by giving workers more responsibility, variety, or control over their tasks.
10. Extra pay given in addition to regular wages or salary, often as a reward for good performance or meeting targets.
11. How happy and content a worker feels about their job, including pay, work tasks, relationships, and working conditions.
12. Payment workers receive for doing a job, usually paid hourly or daily.
13. Verbal or written approval from managers or colleagues that recognizes good work and encourages the employee.
14. A system where employees receive a share of the company’s profits in addition to their pay, giving them a stake in the business’s success.

1. Reasons or forces that make workers want to do their jobs well — for example money, praise, interesting tasks, or chances to be promoted.
2. How much work (goods or services) one worker or a group of workers produces in a given time. Higher productivity means more output per worker or per hour.
4. Moving an employee to a higher position with more responsibility and usually higher pay.
5. Pay based on sales made — a worker earns a percentage or fixed amount for each sale or contract they secure
6. Non-cash rewards provided by an employer, such as health insurance, company car, free meals, pension contributions, or paid leave.
9. Teaching workers new skills or improving existing ones so they can do their jobs better.