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• Privileged Motions


  • Adjourn
  • Recess
  • Raise a question of privilege
  • Call for the orders of the day
• Subsidiary Motions


  • Lay on the table
  • Previous question
  • Limit or extend debate
  • Postpone to a certain time
  • Refer to a committee
  • Amend
  • Postpone indefinitely
• Main Motion


  A motion which brings business before the assembly and which can be made only while no other motion is pending
• Motions that Bring a Question Again Before the Assembly

  • Reconsider
  • Discharge a committee
  • Rescind a motion previously adopted
  • Take from the table
• Incidental Motions


  • Point of information
  • Parliamentary inquiry
  • Division of the assembly
  • Division of a question
  • Withdraw a motion
  • Objection to consideration
  • Suspend the rules
  • Appeal from the ruling of the chair
  • Point of order
• Thirteen ranking motions from Robert McConnell Productions (1999). Webster's New World Robert's rules of order: simplified and applied. New York: Macmillan General Reference.
• Meeting objectives and the parliamentary motions used to fulfill them

  • Present an idea for consideration or action
  • Improve a pending motion
  • Regulate or cut-off debate
  • Delay a decision
  • Suppress a proposal
  • Meet an emergency
  • Gain information on a pending motion
  • Question the decision of the chair
  • Enforce rights and privileges
  • Consider a question again
  • Change an action already taken
  • Terminate a meeting
• Just compensation

  Payment made to an employee for work performed or to make them "whole" after loss due to damages
• Just compensation in the workplace

  • Fair compensation is not limited to the payment of wages or salary
  • Compensation may also include non-cash benefits, such as health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off, as well as incentives, such as bonuses and profit-sharing
  • The definition of compensation must take into account the nature of the employment relationship
  • The practice of just compensation in the workplace must be guided by principles of equity, consistency, and performance-based pay
• The practice of just compensation in the workplace is not limited to the payment of wages or salary. It also includes the payment of benefits, such as health insurance and retirement plans, as well as incentives, such as bonuses and profit-sharing
• Employee compensation


  The total rewards, both monetary and non-monetary, that employees receive in exchange for their work
• Components of employee compensation

  • Base salary
  • Benefits
  • Incentives
• General policies in salary administration

  • Internal equity
  • External competitiveness
  • Pay transparency
• Principles considered in salary administration

  • Equity
  • Consistency
  • Performance-based pay
• Problems in salary administration

  • Pay compression
  • Salary inequity
  • Cost control