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| Human Resource Management |
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| Is the design of formal systems in an organization that ensure the effective and efficient use of human capital to accomplish organizational goals. |
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| What business function did HR evolve from? |
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| Personnel and payroll administration |
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| When did HR begin as a specialized function? |
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| Currently what services to HR reps provide to their organization? |
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| Administrative and Operational |
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| Who are considered HR clients? |
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| Senior management and functional areas |
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| What is the focus of the Administrative role of HR? |
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| compliance issues such as record keeping via an HRIS |
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| Human Resource Information Systems; they help manage HR data such as employee records and create compliance reports |
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| What is the operational role of HR? |
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| day-to-day tasks to run the organization; consists of many traditional HR tasks (recruiting, resolving employee complaints) |
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| HR strategic activities are sometimes referred to as.... |
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| transformational activities |
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| What must HR professionals do to fulfill a strategic role? |
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| Understand the organization's business and environment it operates in, key competition,, and trends and events that could influence the organizations success, establish business partnerships, establish partnerships with individuals outside the organization |
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