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Or organizational agility is the capacity of a business organization to adapt to long-run changes in products, markets, or technology. Agility is sometimes contrasted with ‘flexibility’,...

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the evaluation of an individual's performance, usually by an immediate line manager. Appraisals are performed on a regular basis for National Health Service employees.

A community-based or sometimes an institutional-based study in which selected individuals are asked to provide answers to questions aimed at assessing their beliefs, values, or attitudes to...

A municipal organization chiefly in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, staffed by paid professionals trained in such fields as social work and/or by untrained or partially...

(control of substances hazardous to health) (in occupational health) legislation and resulting regulations concerning the duties and responsibilities of employers and employees to ensure...

The allowance payable to people under state retirement age who are unable to work because of illness or disability; it replaced incapacity benefit in 2008. Entitlement depends on either an...

The idea that the formal goals of an organization can be supplanted by a new set of objectives that reflect the interests of organizational leaders. The concept is applied particularly to...

Anglicized version of the German gästarbeiter, a term used throughout the European Union to describe migratory or transitory laborers, usually from Eastern Europe, Asia Minor (Turkey), or...

A collective agreement between a trade union and an employer that gives effect to the concept of social partnership at enterprise level. Agreements of this kind have been negotiated by a...

A diagnostic tool developed by organizational consultants Robert Blake and Jane Mouton, which allows managers to assess their leadership style. In a self-completion questionnaire, managers...