MGT 3320 : MGT 3320 TEST 1
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What is hrm: human resources (hr) are the people that an organization employs to carry out various jobs, tasks, and functions in exchange for wages, salaries, and other rewards. Who carries out hr programs: line managers are those directly responsible for creating goods and services aka production. That is, their contributions to the organization were generally assessed in terms of their actual contributions and costs to the organizations bottom-line. Examples would be operations manager, financial managers, and marketing managers: staff managers are those responsible for an indirect or support function that would have costs by whose bottom-line were less direct aka support. What is the difference: disparate treatment: discrimination exists when individuals in similar situations are treated differently based on the individual"s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability status. An example would be a restaurant not wanting employees with long hair.
