COURSE: M.S. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
MSEM814 – ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES
1. Definition of Terms;
a. Personnel Management: is an administrative discipline of hiring and developing employees. It includes; Conducting job analyses, planning personnel needs and recruitment, orienting and training, determining and managing wages and salaries.
b. Procurement: The act of obtaining or buying goods and services. The process includes preparation and processing of a demand as well as the end receipt and approval of payment.
c. Development: The process of adding improvements to a parcel of land, such as grading, subdivisions, drainage, access, roads, utilities.
d. Compensation: something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, injury, suffering, lack, etc.; Example is the indemnity: The insurance company paid him $2000 as compensation for the loss of his car.
e. Integration: from the Latin integer, meaning whole or entire. Generally means combining parts so that they work together or form as a whole or the process of attaining close and seamless coordination between several departments, groups, organizations, systems, etc.
f. Maintenance: Activities required or undertaken to conserve as nearly, and as long, as possible the original condition of an asset or resource while compensating for normal wear and tear.
g. Separation:
1) A period of time that people, organization or group who are usually together spend apart.
2) The termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal).
3) The social act of separating or parting company.
h. Job Enlargement: Job enlargement is considered a horizontal restructuring method in that the job is enlarged by adding related tasks. Job enlargement may also result in greater workforce flexibility.
i. Job Enrichment: Job enrichment adds new sources of job satisfaction by increasing the level of responsibility of the employee.
j. Job Specification: A