Glossary of Terms

refers to monetary or non-monetary motivation or privilege given to an official or employee for contributions, suggestions, inventions, ideas, satisfactory accomplishments, or demonstration of exemplary behavior based on agreed performance standards and norms of behavior. 

is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or scalable, to people at the base of the pyramid by making them part of the value chain of companies’ core business as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers.

economic growth that not only focuses on attaining the highest value possible but also ensures that it has a positive impact on the most vulnerable aspects of society (i.e. the poor, the unemployed, etc.). 

refer to entrepreneurial business activities of whatever scale that takes place in or by the learning institutions managed by the students and supervised by technical instructors with revolving capital provided by the institution established for the purpose of providing the students the opportunity of learning business acumen and to generate income for the improvement of the institutions.  

• refers to the condition wherein a trainer has no or insufficient industry work experience prescribed in the Training Regulation. (TESDA Circular No. 071 s. 2019)
• the period of time provided for a competency assessor to comply with the industry work experience required. (IWER). TESDA Circular No. 075 s., 2020)

a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as an organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed customs, tradition and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social, and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions, and culture, become historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos.  (PSA)

it contains among others the qualification requirements of the position based on CSC Qualification Standards (MUSTS) and other needed qualifications (WANTS), core competencies, job description, the documentary requirements that need to be submitted by the applicant, and the corresponding deadline of submission of said requirements.

is an organization of independent business units in the same branch of industry, which conducts activities cooperatively aimed at improving the welfare of the group, which does not deprive its members of the power to make essential managerial decisions. They are formed by businesses that are engaged in the same or similar trade. They are organized on

a non-profit basis and formed for the protection and promotion of business interests of its members. 

• is a tripartite body composed of representatives from the government, industry associations within the sector and labor sector representatives established in priority industries to provide assistance in the establishment of manpower development schemes, trades and skills standards and other functions as well as provide for the direct participation of employers and workers in the fulfilment of the Authority's objectives.  (PD 442, Labor Code of the Philippines) (TESDA Circular No. 085, s. 2018)
• refers to industry organizations or industry associations recognized by TESDA according to set guidelines. (TESDA Circular No. 131 s. 2019)

the process of deploying TVET trainers to industries/companies to enhance their skills, knowledge, and attitudes in their area of specialization to be applied to their training centers for quality TVET training.