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Mgt 420 exam 1 (chapters 1,2,3,4,5,7, & 11) Chapter 1: the nature of human resource management. Human resources are the people an organization employs to carry out various jobs, tasks, and functions in exchange for wages, salaries, and other rewards. Human resource management is the comprehensive set of managerial activities and tasks concerned with developing and maintaining a qualified workforce human resources in ways that contribute to organizational effectiveness. Outsourcing is the process of hiring outside firms to handle basic human resource management functions, presumably more efficiently than the organization. Scientific management one of the earliest approaches to management, was concerned with how to structure individual jobs so as to maximize efficiency and productivity. Human relations era supplanted scientific management as the dominant approach to management during the 1930s. The human relations era was stimulated by the hawthorne studies. Abraham maslow"s hierarchy of human needs - was developed during the human relations era.
