What is 'onboarding'?
AnswerWelcoming and training new staff members
Onboarding helps new hires learn their role, tools and workplace culture.
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The basics
What does 'skeleton staff' mean?
AnswerThe minimum number of staff needed to keep things running
A skeleton staff is a bare-minimum crew, often used during holidays.
Going deeper
The word 'mentor' comes from a character in which ancient Greek epic?
AnswerThe Odyssey
In Homer's Odyssey, Mentor is the trusted friend who advises Odysseus's son Telemachus.
What is a 'sabbatical'?
AnswerAn extended break from regular work, often for study or rest
The word comes from the ancient idea of a sabbath year of rest.
In a RACI chart, what does the A stand for?
AnswerAccountable
RACI stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed.
Expert level
What does Parkinson's law say about work?
AnswerIt expands to fill the time available for its completion
C. Northcote Parkinson stated the law in a 1955 essay in The Economist.
The Hawthorne effect refers to people doing what?
AnswerChanging their behavior because they know they are observed
It is named after studies at the Hawthorne Works factory near Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s.
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