Fundamentals of Performance Technology: A Guide to Improving People, Process, and Performance

- Safety engineering is continually evaluating materials and processes to eliminate or minimize hazards and conditions that cause accidents.

- Self-directed learning is training designed to master material independently and at the person's own pace.

- Spirituality means striving for the common good for individual employees and the common good for the organization.

- Spirituality in the workplace encourages organizations to recognize employee needs and to promote employee involvement.

- Strategic management supports the organizational vision through the day-today implementation of the strategic plan.

- Strategic planning is the process by which an organization envisions its future and develops the necessary goals and procedures to achieve that vision.

- Succession planning is a systematic identification and development of employees, usually for senior management positions .

- Suggestion systems allow employees to increase workplace responsibility and accountability by offering ideas for improving products or services. Rewards are often provided for suggestions that bring positive results to the organization.

- Summative evaluation considers the usability and adequacy of the intervention and gathers information about the results that will be useful to senior decision makers in the organization.

- Supervisory development enables frontline managers to establish work standards and enforce organizational policies and procedures primarily for nonmanagement employees.

- A team is a group of people working together as a cohesive unit to accomplish a common goal.

- Teambuilding is based on the philosophy that people work better and more creatively in groups than they do alone. It focuses on trust, collaboration, openness, and other interpersonal factors.

- Training refers to instructional experiences provided by employers for employees.

- Value engineering is determining the amount of value added to the organization by each job and unit or to the product by each component.

- Work design is a blueprint of job tasks structured to improve organizational efficiency and employee satisfaction.

- Work methods are documents by which an organization defines what work needs to be done and how it will be accomplished.