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Headhunters

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Specialists hired to find and recruit top talent for important job positions, often persuading them to leave their current employer.

Psychometric tests

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Assessments that measure a person’s mental capabilities, personality traits, and aptitude.

Remuneration

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The money paid for work or services; compensation.

Fringe benefits

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Extra advantages given to employees in addition to their salary (e.g. company car, health insurance).

Delayered

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Having reduced the number of levels in an organization’s hierarchy.

Outplacement

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Services provided to help former employees transition to new jobs after being laid off.

Glass ceiling

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An invisible barrier that prevents certain groups, especially women and minorities, from advancing to higher positions.

Passive smoking

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Inhaling smoke from other people’s cigarettes, also known as secondhand smoke.

Repetitive strain injury (RSI)

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Injury caused by repeated use of a particular part of the body, common in office work.

Boardroom row

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meeting room for the company's executives

Fat cats

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Executives with very high pay and benefits, often considered undeserved

Severance package

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Compensation given to an employee when they are laid off, often includes money and benefits.

Trade union

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An organization of workers formed to protect their rights and interests.

Go-slow

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A form of industrial protest where employees work at a slower pace than usual.

Flexitime

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A system that allows employees to choose their working hours within certain limits.

Benchmarking

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Comparing a company’s performance with the best practices of other companies.

Mass production

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Mass production is the commercial manufacture of large quantities of standardized products.

Wikinomics

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A form of mass collaboration over the internet for problem-solving or innovation.

Intellectual property

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Legal rights to inventions, designs, or artistic works.

Royalties

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Payments made to the owner of intellectual property for the right to use it.

Junk mail

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Unsolicited advertising sent by mail.

Loss-leader

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A product sold at a loss to attract customers into a store.

Undercutting

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Offering a lower price than competitors to gain market share.

Downmarket

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Intended for lower-income consumers; cheap and possibly low quality.

Shareholder

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A person who owns shares in a company.

Overleveraged

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Having taken on too much debt compared to the company’s equity.

savers

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someone who saves rather than spends their money

White knight

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A friendly investor or company that saves a firm from an unwanted takeover.

Flotation

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The process of a company offering shares to the public for the first time.

Derivatives

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Financial instruments whose value is based on another asset (e.g., stocks, commodities).