Career Management Vocab 3.2

A balance achieved between two desirable but incompatible features; a compromise.

• Job Sharing

• Eldercare

• Major Decision

• Trade-off

An extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary, for example, a company car, subsidized meals, bonus, privilege, etc.

• Complaint Decision Making

• Compromise

• Telecommuting

• Fringe Benefit

The typical manner in which a person makes a decision.

• Decision Making Style

• Alternatives

• Fringe Benefit

• Prerequisite

The process of choosing between two or more alternatives or options; most logical way to make a decision.

• Flex time

• Major Decision

• Tentative

• Decision Making Process

A lot of time and energy are spent, but a choice is not made.

• Trade-off

• Employee Benefits

• Fringe Benefit

• Painful Decision Making

The choice is made for you by someone else, with your permission.

• Decision Making Style

• Complaint Decision Making

• Major Decision

• Tentative

The need for decision making is not recognized or, if recognized, it is put off for some future date.

• Telecommuting

• Delaying Decision Making

• Job Outlook

• Stability

The state or quality of being stable

• Employee Benefits

• Stability

• Trade-off

• Family Medical Leave Act

Indirect and non-cash compensation in addition to their normal wages or salaries paid to an employee. Some benefits are mandated by law (such as social security, unemployment compensation, and workers compensation), others vary from firm to firm or industry to industry (such as health insurance, life insurance, medical plan, paid vacation, pension, and gratuity)

• Employee Benefits

• Fringe Benefit

• Prerequisite

• Compromise

Something that combines qualities or elements of different things; to give up something to reach a decision.

• Job Sharing

• Stability

• Compromise

• Family Medical Leave Act