### employment:

Workload
* is work
* measures how long and hard a person is able to exercise during the test.
* require animals and humans to adapt to altered mental and physical demands.

### empowerment:

Certification
* are authorization
  - situations
* credential issued by a credentialing entity to an individual.
* form of professional recognition provided an individual.
* formal means of establishing a professional reputation.
* is akin to labeling processed food
  - an activity which points out a certain level of reliability
  - associated with a specific version of a product or device
  - empowerment
  - no measure of ability to perform in the real world
  - often the sole activity in which the owner of a certification mark is engaged
  - the formal approval of a document by a person in a position of authority
* legal process.
* market-based auditing system that verifies compliance with a number of criteria.
* means of measuring and documenting knowledge that is required today
  - providing information to customers
* measure of patient care excellence and consumer safety.
* national exam that sets industry standards.
* professional development tool created by teachers, for teachers.
* refers to an individual's qualification to teach.
* sign that plumbers have reached a certain skill level.
* time-tested means of measuring a professional's credentials.
* voluntary process for individuals.
* way for editors to demonstrate competence in various types of editing software.

### empowerment | certification:

Accreditation
* disciplined management style that results in professional integrity and quality.
* is an effort to maintain the quality of academic institutions and programs
  - official recognition of competence for the performance of certain activities
  - standardization of services to be rendered as professional postpartum assistance
* is the academic world's way of ensuring that high quality is maintained
  - certification that a school or program meets a prescribed academic standard
  - evaluation of an organization s competence to carry out certain functions
  - gold standard against which outpatient surgery facilities are measured
  - means of self-regulation and peer review adopted by the educational community
  - process by which a school's programs of study are reviewed for their quality
  - quality assurance that education is meeting minimum standards
* means a level of quality that translates to positive revenue
  - of showing confidence in a school's performance
* measure of agency performance by professional peers.
* non-governmental system of academic review.
* non-governmental, peer review process that ensures educational quality.
* process by which institutions evaluate and measure their effectiveness.
* process of confirmation, or tasdeeq, of the institution being evaluated
  - quality assurance involving appraisal by groups of external peers
  - school-based activities to improve teaching and student performance
  - peculiar to the United States
* process that is based on the principles of self-study and peer review
  - sets minimum standards for law enforcement agencies
* refers to standard setting and review process.
* ruler against which providers can measure themselves.
* self-improvement process for law enforcement agencies.
* system of non-government self regulation performed by private organizations
  - used to verify the quality of a school or a specific program
* tends to be associated with the spreading of quality assurance systems.
* tool for school improvement and evaluation.
* voluntary activity undertaken by educational institutions and programs
  - process for child care programs
* voluntary process that colleges and schools elect to participate in
  - institutions choose to undertake
  - recognizes law enforcement professional excellence
  - status achieved by a law enforcement agency
* way of protecting employers as well as the profession as a whole.