A beginning exercise, game or simulation used as a means to reduce tension and create a more relaxed atmosphere during training programs.
Icebreaker
Regulated by federal and state statutes, it occurs when a person fraudulently obtains and uses another person’s personal information, such as name, Social Security number, credit card number, etc., without that person’s authorization, consent or knowledge.
Identity theft
An individual who is not a U.S. citizen and who has entered the United States without proper documentation and without complying with legally required U.S. immigration and naturalization procedures.
Illegal immigrant/alien
The practice of counseling and advising individuals regarding items such as personal appearance, dress, manner of speaking or style.
Image counseling
Prohibits the employment of individuals who are not legally authorized to work in the United States or in an employment classification that they are not authorized to fill. Requires employers to certify (using the I-9 form) within three days of employment the identity and eligibility to work of all employees hired. Also prohibits discrimination in employment- related matters on the basis of national origin or citizenship.
Immigration reform and control act of 1986
A physical or mental condition resulting from injury or illness, which diminishes an individual’s faculties such as ability to hear, see, walk, talk, etc.
Impairment
Foreign nationals who are hired by the US. Employers under the H1- B visa program to fill highly skilled vacancies due to a labor shortage of skilled US. Applicants.
Impatriate
Selection rate, for an employment opportunity, for a group of people in a protected class, divided by the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate. For an adverse employment situation, it is the rate of the group with the lowest rate divided by the rate of the group in question. They are compared to the 80 percent rule to determine adverse impact.
Impact ratio
Additional compensation used to motivate and reward employees for exceeding performance or productivity goals.
Incentive pay
A plan providing additional compensation intended to serve as an incentive for excellent performance, exceeding productivity goals or standards, as well as other contributions in accordance with prescribed goals or standards.
Incentive pay plan
An employee stock option plan that allows options to be granted or exercised on a tax-deferred basis. All gains on options are taxed only when the holder sells the stock.
Incentive stock option
Indicates the number of workplace injuries/illnesses and the number of lost work days per 100 employees.
Incidence rate
An EAP program which is conducted by a trained professional counselor hired as an employee by the employer to handle all aspects of the company’s EAP.
In-company/in-house counseling
A self-employed individual who performs a service for an employer under an express or implied agreement and who is not subject to the employer’s control, or right to control, regarding the method and means in which the service is performed.
Independent contractor
Compensation that is not paid directly to an employee and is calculated in addition to base salary and incentive pay (i.e., health/dental/vision insurance, vacation, retirement benefits, educational benefits, relocation expenses, etc.).
Indirect compensation
Expenses, such as fringe benefits, overhead, utilities, rent or equipment, that have been incurred for the purpose of common general activities and cannot be identified or charged directly to the production of a specific project.
Indirect costs
Used to define labor that is necessary to support the manufacturing of a product, but is not directly involved with the actual process of manufacturing the product.
Indirect labor
Programs designed to introduce and acclimate newly hired employees into the organization.
Induction program
The involvement and empowerment of employees in decision-making within the organization by such methods as joint labor-management committees, work teams, quality circles, employee task forces, etc.
Industrial democracy
Applied psychology concerned with the study of human behavior in the workplace and how to efficiently manage an industrial labor force and problems encountered by employees.
Industrial psychology
Programs designed to get employees who have been injured on the job back into the workforce and off workers’ compensation.
Industrial rehabilitation
An individual’s agreement to allow something to transpire subsequent to the individual having been informed of associated risks involved and alternatives.
Informed consent
A court-issued order requiring a party to either do or refrain from doing a certain act.
Injunction
