MGMT 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Human Resource Management, Flextime, Job Sharing

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 100
• Professor: Ying Zhu

Document Summary

Apprentice programs: training programs during which a learner works alongside an experienced employee to master the skills and procedures of a craft. Cafeteria-style benefits (flexible benefits) plans: benefit plans that allow employees to choose which benefits they want up to a certain dollar amount. Compressed workweek: work schedule that allows an employee to work a full number of hours per week but in fewer days. Contingent workers: workers who do not have regular, full-time employment. Core time: in a flextime plan, the period when all employees are expected to be at their job stations. Employment equity: employment activities designed to increase the employment opportunities for four groups (women, aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities) given past discrimination. Flextime plan: work schedule that gives employees some freedom to choose when to work, as long as they work the required number of hours.