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1. Human Resources is often short- HR
en as
2. HR may be referred to as.. A function denoting a subunit within a larger
organization
3. Human Resources Department is an HR Function
synonymous with
4. What did HR start as and
what did it do it was an employment oflce that relived managers
of the responsibility of hiring employees and freed
up time for them
5. Did people up to the first
world war infrequently
change jobs? yes
6. What happened as organizations the need for employees required increasing the
amount of
expanded time
7. Part time clerks were hired They became full time workers
to help out with paperwork
but what happened as the
work in- creased
8. What led to consistency in
the hiring practices
bringing in clerks from many areas of an organization
9. What happened when into a single location and have a supervisor
supervi- sors acquired oversee them.
additional duties and the
volume of work in- creased.they became the first personnel managers
10. who was responsible for employ- A paymasters
ees to receive pay
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11. What happened with paymasters in time the scope and task expanded like HR, all
paymasters
were grouped into a single oflce called payroll
which in time would be assigned to personnel
12. the task of withholding became a Payroll was assigned to Personnel
HR operation when
13. Are payroll operations now
com- monly outsourced Yes
14. What are fringe benefits? Additional benefits (e.g. pension, health insurance,
car etc.)
to entice workers to stay with companies.
15. Who was in charge of administer- Personnel
ing fringe benefits
16. What expanded
opportunities for employees The National Labor Relations and Wagner Acts
to form unions
17. Who's responsibility was it Personnel
for complying with legal
require- ments related to
unions
18. Why was the title Personnel in recognition of growing and complex
re- placed with Human
Resources responsibilities re- lated to employees
19. HR Managers are often paid True
less than organizational peers
20. Because HR does not
generate revenue, it is often True
regarded as being second
class
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