1	Hacking		_____	Organizational structure that combines departmentalization by division and function to gain the benefits of both; results in some employees reporting to two managers rather than one, with neither manager assuming a superior role.
2	HR Audit		_____	Act of deliberately accessing a computer without permission.
3	Human Resource Informaiton System (HRIS)		_____	Termination of employment of individual employees or groups of employees for reasons other than perfomance, for example, economic necessity or restructuring; also known as downsizing.
4	Independent Contractors		_____	Use of information from past and present to predict future conditions.
5	Industrial Actions		_____	Self-employed individuals hired on a contract basis for specialized services.
6	Information Systems (IS)		_____	Broad statement that reflects an organization’s philosophy, objectives, or standards concerning a particular set of management or employee activities.
7	Intellectual Property (IP)		_____	Work groups that conduct the major business of an organization.
8	Joint Employment		_____	Group of workers who formally organize and coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also called trade union.
9	Judgmental Forecasts		_____	Statistical method used to predict a variable from one or more predictor variables.
10	Knowledge Management (KM)		_____	Ownership of innovation by an individual or business enterprise; includes patented, trademarked, or copyrighted property.
11	Labor Union		_____	Common form of post-employment agreement that prevents employee from leaving to work for one of employer’s competitors.
12	Line Units		_____	Process of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization and the well-being of its members through planned interventions.
13	Lockout		_____	Process by which an organization contracts with third-party vendors to provide selected services/activities, instead of hiring new employees.
14	Matrix Structure		_____	Action of an employer to shut down operations to prevent employees from working.
15	Mediation		_____	Way to collect, organize, store, analyze, and share data.
16	Non-Compete Agreement (NCA)		_____	Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also called conciliation.
17	Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)		_____	Process of creating, acquiring, sharing, and managing knowledge to augment individual and organizational performance.
18	Organizational Development		_____	Positioning of employees at a place of work targeted for the action for the purpose of protest.
19	Outsourcing		_____	Agreement that requires specific contractors to accept certain conditions in project contracts, such as paying a fair wage and contributing to health insurance, pension, and training funds.
20	Picketing		_____	Organizational structure in which functional departments are grouped under major product divisions.
21	Policy		_____	Various forms of collective employee actions taken to protest work conditions or employer actions.
22	Product Structure		_____	Information technology framework and tools for gathering, storing, maintaining, retrieving, revising, and reporting relevant HR data.
23	Project Labor Agreement (PLA)		_____	Common form of post-employment agreement, especially in knowledge industries, in which employee agrees not to discuss knowledge gained during employment.
24	Reduction In Force (RIF)		_____	Systematic and comprehensive evaluation of an organization’s HR policies, practices, procedures, and strategies.
25	Regression Analysis		_____	Situation in which an organization shares responsibility and liability for their alternative workers with an alternative staffing supplier; also known as co-employment.