Dictionary-of-Human-Resources-Management

horizontal organisation 127 HRIS
more interesting. Compare vertical job
enlargement
horizontal organisation /hɒrI-
zɒnt(ə)l ɔɡənaIzeIʃ(ə)n/ noun same
as flat organisation
horse trading /hɔs treIdIŋ/ noun
hard bargaining which ends with someone
giving something in return for a
concession from the other side
hostile /hɒstaIl/ adjective unfriendly,
showing dislike hostile work environment
working surroundings which
are unfriendly
hot /hɒt/ adjective 1. very warm
Switch off the machine if it gets too hot.
The staff complain that the office is
too hot in summer and too cold in winter.
2. not safe, very bad to make
things hot for someone to make it difficult
for someone to work or to trade
Customs officials are making things hot
for drug smugglers. she is in the hot
seat her job involves making many difficult
decisions
hot cargo provision /hɒt kɑɡəυ
prəvIʒ(ə)n/ noun a clause in a contract
that allows employees to refuse to handle
products from another factory where
there is an industrial dispute in progress
hot-desking /hɒt deskIŋ/ noun a
flexible working practice that enables
employees to occupy any vacant
workspace instead of sitting at a desk
that they think of as their own (NOTE:
Organisations that use a hot-desking
system usually have standardised
workspaces all equipped with information
and communications technologies,
and though employees may have limited
personal storage space in the form
of a filing cabinet or locker, most of
their work and information will be
stored electronically. The system is
usually adopted on the grounds that
conventional offices are only full for a
fraction of the time they are open, because
of sickness, holidays or
teleworking, and hot-desking enables
expensive office space to be fully utilised.)
hour /aυə/ noun 1. a period of time
lasting sixty minutes to work a
thirty-five hour week to work seven
hours a day each weekday we work
an eight-hour day we work for eight
hours a day, e.g. from 8.30 to 5.30 with
one hour for lunch 2. sixty minutes of
work He earns £14 an hour. We pay
£16 an hour. to pay by the hour to
pay people a fixed amount of money for
each hour worked 3. outside hours,
out of hours when the office is not open
He worked on the accounts out of
hours.
hourly /aυəli/ adjective, adverb per
hour
‘…despite the Fed’s long-standing fears that
low unemployment will raise wage costs,
average hourly earnings grew by just 3.6 per
cent in the year to November’
[Investors Chronicle]
hourly-paid /aυəli peId/ adjective
paid at a fixed rate for each hour worked
hourly rate /aυəli reIt/, hourly
wage /aυəli weIdʒ/ noun the amount
of money paid for an hour worked
hours of work /aυəz əv wk/
plural noun the time when the staff
of an office are working Our hours of
work are 9.30 to 5.30, with an hour off
for lunch.
house /haυs/ noun a company the
largest London finance house a broking
house a publishing house
house journal /haυs dʒn(ə)l/,
house magazine /haυs mɡəzin/
noun a magazine produced for the employees
or shareholders in a company to
give them news about the company
house party /haυs pɑti/ noun a
method of interviewing candidates in
which they are invited to spend a few
days in a hotel or other centre, where
they are given tests and monitored for
interpersonal relations
house union /haυs junjən/ noun a
union representing employees in one
company only
housing /haυzIŋ/ noun houses and
flats for living in The company provides
housing for senior staff.
housing benefit /haυzIŋ benIfIt/
noun a local government benefit paid to
people who cannot pay their rent
HR abbr human resources
HRIS abbr human resource information
system