salaried employees ... employees
that don't work by the clock.
salaries:
... a category of labor
market data collected and used by site
selectors in order to project employee costs.
Analysis may included the cost of hiring salaried
employees. The category may be called wage
levels and report pay for both salaried and
hourly workers.
sanitary sewer:
... a closed sewer system
for transporting unsanitary
wastewater more
from Wikipedia.
SBDC ... Small
Business Development Centersee
small business resources
seagoing:
... said of a seaworthy vessel
moving or capable of traveling in open water, i.e. an expanse
of water, such as a ocean or sea, having shores that can
be seen on the distant horizon as they are approached or
that cannot be seen at all. See the definitions of blue
water and open sea and water
transportation in the resources archive.
search application:
... a computer
program that functions
as a search toolsee
search
app. Also, see page 6 of the .network introduction
series. It has information
and links to search applications.
search area ... a place targeted
for a site
search.
search directory:
... the search
section of the .network library
which has a list of useful tools, including search engines.
It's a duplicate of a page
of the .network introductionsee
search application.
search options:
... choices for conducting a search.
For example, when you access
a search engine you are generally
provided a link to advanced
search options. The Google/.network search
engine has radio buttons which
give you the options of querying the Web or specific websites.
Our tool for querying the Global
Registry of Contacts has
pull-down menus which give you the option, for example,
of searching for words
that begin with capital letters.
seasonal workers:
... workers hired
for a short period. Seasonal workers, like part-time workers,
generally don't receive benefits
on the same basis as full-time employees. Seasonal workers may be
migrant workers. A migrant
worker moves from place to place on a
schedule that follows the anticipated availability of temporary employment
in recurring periods of peak job opportunity.
selection criteria:
... a
delineation of wants and needs set forth in order to
effectively guide the course of a project towards
completion; the essential part of a set
of instructions given to a site
selector by an enterprise
developer; site selection requirements or specifications used
in searching for, examining,
and choosing a location; an
itemized list of location
data items used by a site
selector to make a comparative
analysis; indispensable information that goes
along with publication of a project
profile as an announced the Site
Selection Directory.
semi-skilled:
... workers able
to read, write and communicate but not required
to have educational or apprenticeship
credentials to qualify for their jobs. Training
time is short.
Training
is task-specific and generally doesn't provide much in the way of
using reasoning skills. The definition is based on
three skill classifications which are generally used by
manufacturers,
are generally separated into skilled, semi-skilled and
unskilled.
separation:
... assistance provided to employees
when they leave their jobs involuntarily; severance;
money
provided which is referred to as either severance
pay or separation
pay (separation occurs when a worker dies,
retires, or has a termination of employment). Separation
that occurs as a result of an employer's relocation may
be paid in the form of a severance. The end of a working
relationship may result in the payment of a project
completion bonus which is defined as pay at the end
of a contract assignment. Non-money separation
may be provided as extra time off or vacation at
the time severance or services such as
outplacement assistance, career counseling, and employee-paid
extension of insurance benefits.
service provider:
... an individual or enterprise in
possession of the necessary resources or
having tools and materials for dealing with a problem,
zeroing in on an opportunity
or otherwise assisting in moving forward in an endeavor;
a resource
supplier; an individual or organization in position
as a contact for
those who are members of
the target user group of The Network Read the
paragraph
about resource and service providers in the
.network introduction.
severance:
... assistance, including money, provided
by an employer to a person permanently leaving a job; a
package of benefits, sometimes called a separation package,
given to an employee terminated from work. The amount of
severance pay may vary from employee to employee in a group
being
terminated based, for example,
years of servicesee separation.
sewer:
... as an item of utility infrastructure
which usually goes along with water services (water and
sewer), a category of economic
development information that may be found in a community
profile; a data element listed under utilities
in a location package; a conveyance for a mix of unhealthy
liquid and solid waste or rainwater.
shelve:
... to place something on a shelf.
Figuratively, to shelve a project means
that it becomes inactive and, in a sense, is stored for
reference or use of part(s) of it in the future. A shelved
project is one that is abandoned, brought to an end without
reaching its objectives or carrying out specifications.
For example, shelving a relocation project
means the end of site
selection efforts and that information, such as location
data, becomes outdated. Sometimes, relocation
projects are in tandem with productivity recovery (overcoming
a labor problem) or improvement efforts, which means they
may be shelved if the latter are successful.
shelf life:
... an expression that originated with
the
food and pharmaceutical industries. Extrapolating from
there to the Internet, we can say that many links and much
information published online has
a limited shelf life. This causes us (who
we are) to pull
our hair out in trying to
maintain a comprehensive collection of resources for use
by members of
the target
audience of The
Network. We
are constantly in a state of frenzy as we publish links
to outside resources only to to find that they become broken,
thus leaving our users seemingly at
a dead end. We, however, provide users
with a fail
safean
offer to provide free personal search assistance when requested.
See the answer
to a question of why there are dead ends online that
users sometimes ask before they request delivery on
our search
promise.
shift:
... a work period; the group of people
on the job together during a work period. A shift premium
is the extra compensation offered
or paid to employees to induce them to work off their normal shifts
or to new hires to work on shifts that don't readily attract employees.
A steady shift operation is one in which the the employees stay in
their work periods. Steady shifts are generally easier to handle
from a management point of view than rotating shifts. A swing shift
is one that begins in the afternoon and ends at night. A swing shift
as the group in a work period overlapping between a day shift and
a night shift. A shift change is either the the activity of moving
between work periods or the rotation of a worker from one work period
to another.
short-list
... to reduce a number of items under
consideration. When a site
selector does a comparative
analysis of places
of interest, eliminating from consideration those
that do not meet the wants and needs set forth by project
criteria, it can be said that he short-lists the
choices for the next stage of the location
projectsee
the comment
about short-listing in An Introduction to the Enterprise
Development Process.
SIC ... acronym
for Standard
Industrial Classification.
site:
... a website. For
example, one of the
sites
of The Network is Site Location Assistance.com. In
the website name the word site refers to location
work or real
estate.
Six Sigma:
... a way of affecting continuous
improvement in product or service quality based on
statistical measurement that expresses the rate of defects
introduced by a process or built into a product. It equates
to 99.9997% perfect or 3.4 defects per million opportunities
in manufacturing. The concept was first introduced through
Motorola's Quality System Review as an assessment
process. (source).
ISixSigma.com has quality
dictionary/glossary.
skill trade:
... a field of work requiring a craftsperson
with special skills. A craft is a profession or activity
that uses experienced hands to
make something. Apprenticeships are often required for workers to
be accepted as having craft skills. Unions generally handle apprenticeship
programs and trade schools or technical schools often provide credentials.
Post-secondary vocational/training schools help people qualify for
craft-jobs or apprenticeship programs. There is no distinction in
this definition between technical schools and those that proved vocation
training.
skill set:
... competencies necessary or required
in order to be considered qualified to perform work at
either the level of a specific task
or within a trade or profession.
SLA ... acronym for one of
the three .network websites. (source)
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small business:
... an operating
entity of enterprise having
a limited number of employees, for example, less
than 500 with its owner(s) involved in hands-on
management. The World
Bank Glossary of LED Terms indicates that
a business
environment with 5 to 20 employees is small
under the explanation of its acronym for Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Small business
is made up mostly of independent enterprises that,
as a rule, don't dominant their fields of operation.
By SMEs definition a medium size business has from
20 to 200 employees. Enterprises with fewer than 5
employees may be referred to as micro-businesses or
nanocorps. For links to additional information and
resources, CLICK
HERE.
soft infrastructure:
... services
available in a locationsee
hard
infrastructure. Soft infrastructure is associated
with institutions that maintain the health and cultural standards
of a community.
soft money:
... funds that cannot be depended upon
to be available although it may be counted; for example,
money pledged as a contribution; funds received in the
past from a source that is assumed will provide it again
in the future; funds provided in exchange for influence.
special interest group:
... individuals who come
together because their concerns,
motivations or curiosities are similar; an assemblage
gathered or otherwise an association of individuals
joined together to act on interests they have in common;
an association or
other organized effort aimed at advocating
and/or educating regarding a common cause, interest or
issue.
In the latter case, the expression typically brings to
mind institutions and other organizations with purposes
of promoting public policies
and
the making or changing laws beneficial to their members;
i.e., organizations dedicated to lobbying.
It is often problematic to expose organizations
that influence politicians or
are under their control as special interest groups. The
acronyms SIG and SPIG stand for Special Interest Group
(SPecial
Interest Group).
specifications:
... the precise statement of particulars,
such as want and needs, or conditions to be realized or
objectives attained in order to bring an enterprise
development project to its conclusion
as planned. Specifications should be covered by a project
profile. We (who
we are) strongly suggest that project
managers distribute
profiles and specifications that can get the attention
of
resource
and service providers when they want their input.
As the definition says, specification statements have to
be precise, if there is to be an expectation of receiving
valid proposals. See
the definitions of RFP as
well as specs and project
specifications.
spousal job opportunity:
... a consideration provided for a family
relocation when one spouse already has a job secured, as
in the case of a transferee of a company.
The duel-income-family makes spousal employment opportunities a prime
consideration when employees are asked to relocate.
spreadsheet:
... a layout of information on paper
by hand for ease of viewing and understanding; a business
tool that spreads information for making
comparisons. Either way it's a ledger
made up of columns and rows. Electronically created, a
spreadsheet is a table or grid that forms cells
for data entry
and
manipulation. It sets out information information
from a computer for full viewing as spread of data on a
projection, screen, or printout.
standard industrial classification:
... see information
about industrial classifications in the .network resource archive.
standard:
... something that generally remains
unchanged, although widely utilized; a means of regulation
advocated or established by authority,
custom, or agreementsee boiler
plate.
staff:
... an individual or group that work
in a supporting role; workers supporting those directly
contributing to the production of revenue; employees
of a not-for-profit
operation.
startup:
... the process of getting
underway with the operations of an enterprise;
starting up; the beginning point for a new venture,
especially a business
venture; the fruition of an enterprise
development project. Startups is a general
term encompassing all expansions, relocations or new
ventures in their earliest stage of being
in effect or being operational. The startup may be
the event of opening for business or the time-period
between the selection of a location (site
selection) and the point of being operative.
As an event, a startup often includes an announcement
and a ceremony, such as a ribbon-cuttingsee groundbreaking.
stay bonus:
... a compensation paid
above a salary or wages by an employer in order to retain
an employee; something extra that is generally considered
as pay which entices an employee to stay on the job. Although
obscure in its usage, the expression may also be used to
identify severance pay (see separation)
provided to an employee left behind as a result of a relocation.
step-change ... performance
stepchange.
step-through process:
... a series of movements in sequence
from one place to another, as in through a succession of
webpages. For example, the Area Development section of
Economic
Development.net is designed for users to step
through beginning with a
page that is a global list of countries and ultimately
ending up on a pages that show the names of places at the local
level. Various sections
of .network websites are designed with
pages showing buttons at the top to accommodate
the step-through process. In other words, pages-in-series
show linked
arrow-buttons for moving back and fourth through
an organized sequence of information.
storefront:
... an analogy for a commercial
enterprise, especially one that must operate
with exposure in a market; a
marketplace, such as a retail outlet, with specific
reference to the part of the
store
or shop where
customers
come and go or where they can window
shop; the part of store that faces the street
or pedestrian
walk (a walk-around
area), generally opposite the
shipping and receiving area and where the most
attractive signage is located. Storefront often
refers
to
one of a row of buildings in a commercial area such a mall or
city street.
strategic planning:
... the creation of a
business plan; the artful process of anticipating
and projecting a future course that a business or other
type of enterprise might take to achieve specified objectives coupled
with the gathering of information necessary for making
decisions and the laying out of logistics for initiating
one or more projects aimed at reaching an overall goal.
Strategy Driven Six-Sigma™:
... see the definition of Six
Sigma submitted by Gene
Glover, Maryville,
TN
string:
... items of information or instruction
positioned in a linear manner so that they can be easily
followed, for example, a URL
address string. Another example is the expression location
identity string that helps explain how to identify a place in
the subject line of an email (example).
sub-national:
... an geographic
or demographic area that holds a
secondary position within a country for purposes of definition,
for example,
a regional economy identified as separate from others.
supervisor:
... one who oversees and directly controls
the work of another. A supervisor is generally the manager
most familiar with a group of workers as individuals and the
one who knows what's going on. Savvy HR professionals and
managers in higher levels of responsibility look for
supervisory talent, for example with people
skills, within groups of their own workers.
suspect:
... a potential prospect;
a prospect-related object of wishful
thinking according to The Physics
of Marketing; someone
whose activities are worth keeping under observation by
a business
developer; a person who provides a name and
address in response to a marketing effort; someone
targeted for follow-up by, say, an alert business
networker.
sustainable:
... the operative word use when raising
the question about whether an environment can continue
to support
developmentsee sustainable
development. Sustainability is a buzzword used
those who raise concerns about the future of a community or
a location that
is enjoying economic development success and growingsee sustainable
community. Appendix
F of this glossary address
limits to development. Also, there are discussions related
to sustainability in Site Location Assistance.comsee
resources for rural development, for
example.
systems thinking:
... an approach to whole concept analysis
introduce in The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Sengemore;
also see the definition of excellence for its relationship
to the implementation of change initiatives and improvement
strategies in corporate, business unit, and operations
functions of enterprises.
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