1	Developmental Activities		_____	Situation in which an organization’s compensation levels and benefits are similar to those of other organizations that are in the same labor market and compete for the same employees.
2	Distance Learning		_____	Provides each incumbent of a job with the same rate of pay, regardless of performance or seniority; also known as single-rate pay.
3	Domestic Partners		_____	Form of direct compensation where employers pay for performance beyond normal expectations to motivate higher performance.
4	Dual Career Ladders		_____	Career development programs that identify meaningful career paths for professional and technical people outside traditional management roles.
5	E-Learning		_____	Instruments that collect and assess information on employees’ attitudes and perceptions (such as engagement, job satisfaction, etc.) of the work environment or employment conditions.
6	Employee Engagement		_____	Employees’ emotional commitment to an organization, demonstrated by their willingness to put in discretionary effort to promote the organization's effective functioning.
7	Employee Life Cycle (ELC)		_____	Primary job duties that a qualified individual must be able to perform, either with or without reasonable accommodation.
8	Employee Surveys		_____	Pay increase given to employees based on local competitive market requirements; awarded regardless of employee performance.
9	Employee Value Proposition (EVP)		_____	Factor that motivates performance of a desired behavior or discourages performance of an undesired behavior.
10	Employment Branding		_____	Document that guides employees toward their goals for professional development and growth.
11	Environmental Scanning		_____	Employees’ perceived value of the total rewards and tangible and intangible benefits they receive from the organization as part of employment, which drives unique and compelling organizational strategies for talent acquisition, retention and engagement.
12	Essential Functions		_____	Electronic media delivery of educational and training materials, processes and programs.
13	External Equity		_____	Activities associated with an employee’s tenure in an organization.
14	Flat-Rate Pay		_____	Situations in which an employee’s pay is below the minimum of the range.
15	General Pay Increase		_____	Activities that focus on preparing employees for future responsibilities while increasing their capacity to perform their current jobs.
16	Green-Circle Rates		_____	Unmarried couples, of the same or opposite sex, who live together and seek economic and noneconomic benefits comparable to those granted to their married counterparts.
17	Head Count		_____	Process of delivering educational or instructional programs to locations away from a classroom or site.
18	Incentive		_____	Process of positioning an organization as an “employer of choice” in the labor market.
19	Incentive Pay		_____	Process that involves a systematic survey and interpretation of relevant data to identify external opportunities and threats and to assess how these factors affect the organization currently and how they are likely to affect the organization in the future.
20	Individual Development Plan (IDP)		_____	Number of people on an organization’s payroll at a particular moment in time.