Whois & Analysis for shrm.org

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector she or he is working in.

Employees in some fields or sectors may receive gratuities, bonus payment or stock options.

In some types of employment, employees may receive benefits in addition to payment.

Benefits can include health insurance, housing, disability insurance or use of a gym.

Employment is typically governed by employment laws or regulations or legal contracts.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is a professional human resources membership association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to its members, while lobbying Congress on issues pertinent to labor management.

A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is usually a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession and the public interest.

Critical theory stresses the reflective assessments and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

Other theorists disagree however, and are wary of definitions which stress the importance of interdependence or objective similarity.

Instead, researchers within the social identity tradition generally define it as "a group is defined in terms of those who identify themselves as members of the group".

Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of sizes and varieties.

For example, a society can be viewed as a large social group.