Dictionary-of-Human-Resources-Management

piece rate wages /pis reIt
weIdʒIz/ plural noun payments based
on the number of units produced
piecework /piswk/ noun work for
which employees are paid for the products
produced or the piece of work done
and not at an hourly rate
pieceworker /piswkə/ noun a
person who is employed at a piece rate
pie chart /paI tʃɑt/ noun a diagram
where information is shown as a circle
cut up into sections of different sizes
pilferage /pIlfərIdʒ/, pilfering
/pIlfərIŋ/ noun the stealing of small
amounts of money or small items from
an office or shop
pilot fish /paIlət fIʃ/ noun a junior
executive who acts as an assistant to a
more senior executive and often walks
close behind them, as a pilot fish follows
a shark (slang)
PIN abbr Personal Identification
Number
pin-drop syndrome /pIn drɒp
sIndrəυm/ noun stress caused when a
working environment is extremely quiet
(slang)
pink-collar job /pIŋk kɒlə dʒɒb/
noun a sexist term for a job that is normally
done by a woman, especially a
young one (slang)
pink slip /pIŋk slIp/ noun US an official
letter of dismissal given to an employee
(in place of a final interview)
pink slipper /pIŋk slIpə/ noun US a
person who has been dismissed from
employment
PIW abbr period of incapacity for work
place /pleIs/ noun where something is
or where something happens to take
place to happen The meeting will take
place in our offices. verb to place
staff to find jobs for staff how are
you placed for work? have you enough
work to do?
placement /pleIsmənt/ noun the
act of finding work for someone The
bureau specialises in the placement of
former executives.
placement service /pleIsmənt
svIs/ noun an office which specialphysically
handicapped 200 placement service
his qualifications for the job were good,
he was rejected after failing the
physical.
physically handicapped /fIzIkli
hndikpt/ adjective having a physical
disability (NOTE: now generally unacceptable
and replaced by disabled)
physical working conditions
/fIzIk(ə)l wkIŋ kəndIʃ(ə)nz/ plural
noun the surroundings in which someone
works, taking into account aspects
such as temperature, air quality, lighting,
safety, cleanliness and noise
pick and shovel work /pIk ən
ʃv(ə)l wk/ noun boring and detailed
work such as the examination of documents
for mistakes
picket /pIkIt/ noun a striking employee
who stands at the entrance to a
place of work to try to persuade other
employees not to go to work to cross
a picket line to go into a place to work,
even though pickets are trying to prevent
employees from going in verb
to picket a factory to stand at the entrance
of a place of work to try to prevent
other employees from going to
work
picketing /pIkItIŋ/ noun the act of
standing at the entrance of a place of
work to try to prevent other employees
going to work lawful picketing picketing
which is allowed by law peaceful
picketing picketing which does not
involve aggression
picket line /pIkIt laIn/ noun a line of
pickets at the entrance of a place of
work to man a picket line or to be on
the picket line
piece /pis/ noun a small part of something
to sell something by the piece
The price is 25p the piece.
piece rate /pis reIt/ noun a rate of
pay for a product produced or for a
piece of work done and not paid for at
an hourly rate to earn piece rates
piece-rate system /pis reIt
sIstəm/ noun a system of payment in
which an employee is paid a particular
amount of money for each unit that they
produce