Dictionary-of-Human-Resources-Management

profit-related pay 209 promotion
profit-related pay /prɒfIt rIleItId
peI/ noun pay (including bonuses)
which is linked to profit
profit-sharing /prɒfIt ʃeərIŋ/ noun
the practice of dividing profits among
employees
profit-sharing scheme /prɒfIt
ʃeərIŋ skim/ noun a scheme by
which employees (either all of them, or
only certain selected categories) are entitled
to get a share of the profits of the
organisation they work for
Profit-sharing schemes encourage employees
to identify more closely with the
company.
program /prəυɡrm/ noun 1. a set
of instructions telling a computer to perform
some task 2. US same as
programme verb to write a program
for a computer to program a computer
to install a program in a computer
The computer is programmed to print
labels.
programme /prəυɡrm/ noun a
plan of things which will be done to
draw up a programme of investment or
an investment programme The training
programme sends all managers for
retraining every year. We are initiating
a new recruitment programme.
(NOTE: the usual US spelling is
program)
programmed instruction
/prəυɡrmd Instrkʃən/, programmed
learning /prəυɡrmd
lnIŋ/ noun a course of instruction
carried out by each trainee at their own
speed
programme evaluation and review
technique (PERT) /-
prəυɡrm IvljueIʃ(ə)n ən rIvju
teknik/ noun a way of planning and
controlling a large project, concentrating
on scheduling and completion on
time. Abbr PERT
progress noun /prəυɡres/ the movement
of work forward to report on the
progress of the work or of the negotiations
in progress which is being done
but is not finished negotiations in
progress work in progress to make
progress to move forward in your work
verb /prəυɡres/ to move forward or
go ahead The contract is progressing
through various departments.
progress chaser /prəυɡres
tʃeIsə/ noun a person whose job is to
check that work is being carried out on
schedule, that orders are being fulfilled
on time, etc.
progression /prəυɡreʃ(ə)n/ noun
the process of moving forward in stages
progressive /prəυɡresIv/ adjective
which moves forward in stages
progress report /prəυɡres rIpɔt/
noun a document which describes what
progress has been made
prohibition /prəυIbIʃ(ə)n/ noun an
act of forbidding something
prohibition notice /prəυIbIʃ(ə)n
nəυtIs/ noun a notice from the Health
and Safety Executive telling a company
to stop doing something which is
dangerous
prohibitory injunction /prə-
hIbIt(ə)ri Indʒŋkʃən/ noun an injunction
which prevents someone from
doing an illegal act
projective listening /prədʒektIv
lIs(ə)nIŋ/ noun the act of imagining the
effects of one’s own words on other
people in order to improve direct communication
skills The sales manager
trained the new sales reps in projective
listening.
projective test /prədʒektIv test/
noun a test of personality, where a candidate
is asked to describe what they see
in certain shapes
project management /prɒdʒekt
mnIdʒmənt/ noun the coordination
of the financial, material and human resources
needed to complete a project
and the organisation of the work that the
project involves
promote /prəməυt/ verb to give
someone a more important job or to
move someone to a higher grade He
was promoted from salesman to sales
manager.
promotion /prəməυʃ(ə)n/ noun the
act of moving up to a more important
job I ruined my chances of promotion
when I argued with the managing director.
The job offers good promotion
chances or promotion prospects. to