human resources management: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	employee relations • manpower management • personnel management

Topics

employee training staffing rewarding recruitment screening seniority system profit sharing nomenklatura industrial relations labour natural resource management production management Total Quality Management logistics chairperson line-staff organization matrix organization managerial economics critical path analysis flowchart

Key People

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Mary Parker Follett

American sociologist