Answer 1 - McCain understands her role as she had several year experience in retail store as a HR manager and here in Harrison Brothers Corporation she is always engaged in procedure of recruitment and staffing of new employees for sales and support job as they look for motivated personality and she also spend time with trainer who tell selling techniques to new salespersons. she also focused on providing career planning to employees and also perform an annual evaluation of employee performance. Her main emphasis is on sales productivity and her efforts are constrained by the under staff of the department and cost consideration.
Answer 2 - Harrison Brothers business strategy is to appeal to moderate - to high income customer and they feel that employee quality and performance is a key element in the success of the company and the company must reinvent itself in order to better adapt to the industry challenges.
Answer 3 - The structure of human resource department includes - Human resource manager ,Human resource assistant , human resource assistant , Trainer , payroll check.
and staffing of human resource department includes - operations manager , sales manager and department head.
Answer 4 - Both HR and Store manager gave same rating to staffing and safety and find it important. HR manager think performance management as more important and gave high rating then store manager and store manager think training and development , compensation , knowledge of business , managing challenges are more important and gave high rating then human resource manager.
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