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Note that although employees may contribute to the evolution of an an enterprise, the employer maintains autonomous control over the productive base of land and capital, and is the entity named in contracts. Other firms use terms such as teammate or team member instead of employee. Other firms use terms such seeing as teammate or team member instead of employee. In the United States, the standard employment contract is supposed to be at-will meaning that the employer and employee are both free to terminate the employment at any time and for any cause, or for no cause at all.

Associate is a term used by some companies instead of employee. Full-size box retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot, for example, use this term for non-management employees. Employment is almost universal in capitalist societies. Motivation is the third and nearly everyone difficult of the factors in the employment relationship for employers to effectively manage. This individual then has all the rights and privileges of an employee, which may include medical benefits and vacation days.

Similar conceptions are that of "land" because a possession (real estate) or intellectual rights while a possession (intellectual property). This conceptual metaphor of a "job" ever since a possession has led to its use in slogans such since "money for jobs, not bombs". Note that although employees may contribute to the evolution of an an enterprise, the employer maintains autonomous control over the productive base of land and capital, and is the entity named in contracts. Wood et al (2004, p 355) describe control can while being either output focused, focusing on desired targets with within managers defining, and using, their own methods for reaching targets, or method controls, which specify the manner in which tasks will be achieved (Ibid, p. 357).