Organization Vocabulary

2. Violation of employee rights; act prohibited under labor relations statutes.
3. Act of replacing employees leaving an organization; attrition or loss of employees.
8. Umbrella term for the various approaches and techniques other than litigation that can be used to resolve a dispute.
10. Refers to the extent in which rules, policies, and procedures govern the behavior of employees in an organization.
12. Situation in which workers slow processes by performing tasks exactly to specifications or according to job or task descriptions.
13. Act of deliberately accessing computer data without permission.
16. Positioning of employees at a place of work targeted for the action for the purpose of protest.
18. Way an organization groups jobs to coordinate work.
19. Type of forecast that uses information from past and present to predict future conditions.
21. Type of organizational structure that combines departmentalization by division and function to gain the benefit of both.
22. Type of planning where activities are needed to ensure that workforce size and competencies meet current and future organizational and individual needs.
23. Termination of employment of individual employees or groups of employees for reasons other than performance.

1. Act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of an organization.
4. Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities instead of hiring new employees.
5. Action of an employer to shut down operations to prevent employees from working.
6. Also called conciliation.
7. Software that is owned, delivered, and managed remotely and delivered over the Internet to contracted customers on a pay-for-use basis or as a subscription based on use metrics.
9. Arrangement in which an enterprise and a vendor share different tasks within a larger complex, often strategic responsibility.
11. Type of HR structural alternative that allows organizations with different strategies in multiple units to apply HR expertise to each unit's specific strategic needs.
14. Reporting of an organization's violation.
15. Type of strike where workers refuse to work; also where workers refuse to leave their workstations, making it impossible for the employer to use replacement workers.
17. Type of organizational structure in which departments are defined by the services they contribute to the organization's overall mission.
20. An organizational structure that leverages staff expertise in certain areas to improve the entire organization's strategic performance.