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| Challenges that managers must consider in the management of employees that relate to ( 1) Organizational demands; ( 2) environ-mental influences; and ( 3) regulatory issues. |
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| The blurring of country boundaries in business activities. |
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| The individuals who work for a company. |
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| The extent to which the three primary HR activities are designed to achieve the goals of the organization. |
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| The extent to which specific practices used within each HR activity are consistent with one another as well as aligned across the primary HR activities |
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| The extent to which the three primary HR activities that a company uses help them meet their organizational demands, cope with environmental factors, and comply with regulatory issues. |
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| factors within a firm that affect decisions regarding how to manage employees. |
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| The company’s plan for achieving a competitive advantage over its rivals. |
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| The pressures that exist outside companies that managers must consider to strategically manage their employees. |
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| The set of underlying values and beliefs that employees of a company share. |
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| primary human resource (HR) activities |
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| The strategic management of employees centers around three categories of HR activities ( 1) Work design and workforce planning; ( 2) managing employee competencies; and ( 3) managing employee attitudes and behaviors. |
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| The individuals who are responsible for supervising and directing the efforts of a group of employees to perform tasks that are directly related to the creation and delivery of a company’s products or services. |
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| human resource ( HR) practices |
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| The practices that a company has put in place to manage employees. |
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| human resource ( HR) department |
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| A support function within companies that serves a vital role in designing and implementing company policies for managing employees. |
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| A company’s ability to create more economic value than its competitors. |
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| The pressures that exist outside companies that managers must consider to strategically manage their employees. |
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