1.If you are a manager and you are about to take a critical decision which decision will you choose of the following, why? Explain your answer with example: ( 2 points)

• – A decision that will maximize the profit margin of the organization, but is illegal and may cause harm to the environment.

• – A decision that will minimize the profit in the short run, But is legal and will contribute to stockholder’s satisfaction.

2.From your own perspective, which of the H.R functions seem to be the most important? Why? (1.5 points)

3.Explain how H.R practices differ in a small businesses in comparison to an international setting?

Refer to Textbook:

• DeCenzo, D. A., & Robbins, S. P. (2013). Human resource management (11th ed., ISV). West Sussex, UK: Wiley and Sons Ltd. ISBN: 9781118379714 (print version; no digital version available).

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Human Resource Management

Question 1

In the position of a manager, I would choose a legal decision that minimizes profit in the short run, and that contributes to stockholder`s satisfaction. I will choose this decision because members of the public examine the kind of culture in business whether ethical or unethical.  A business that peruses a legal culture is more attractive to the audience and acquires a good brand of its products and increases its market share (DeCenzo & Robbins, 2013). Branding facilitates more customers buying from the business and eventually increases profits in the long run and attract more stockholders to the business. For example, a business entity that obeys employment practices of $4 per hour irrespective of the…

 

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