vestibule training

an approach to personnel training in which new employees, before starting their work duties, spend some time learning in a special section (vestibule), apart from the actual work environment that duplicates as precisely as possible the setting and conditions in which the employees will actually be working once their training is complete. See off-the-job training; on-the-job training.

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September 8th 2024

speciesism

n. discriminatory, prejudicial, or exploitative practices against nonhuman animals, often on the basis of an assumption of human superiority. See also animal rights. —speciesist n., adj.