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◉ HR may be referred to as a ___, denoting a subunit within a larger
organization.
Answer: function
◉ HR Department is synonymous with an:
Answer: HR Function
◉ HR started out as an ____.
Answer: employment office
◉ The employment office helped managers because:
Answer: it relieve them of the responsibility of hiring and freed up
time
◉ Up until the first world war, people:
Answer: very rarely changed jobs
◉ In a small business or organization, hiring required little
,Answer: supervisor time
◉ As organizations expanded, the need for employees required:
Answer: increasing amounts of time
◉ Initially, a part-time clerk was hired to help out by tending to:
Answer: Paperwork
◉ Initially the clerk position in the employment office was part-time,
but as the business expanded the job was filled by more and more
people and became full time. Clerks were brought from many areas
within an organization to a single location and a ___ was appointed to
oversee the activities of the clerks.
Answer: supervisor
◉ Hiring a supervisor over the clerks created uniform:
Answer: payment and hiring practices
◉ After being hired employees had to be paid. Because all
employees received the same pay, responsibility for payment was
assigned to a:
Answer: paymaster
, ◉ Paymasters worked for:
Answer: business units or departments
◉ Paymasters each had slightly different:
Answer: procedures
◉ An example given in the lecture of a paymaster included
Answer: army men in calvery uniforms and miners lined up in long
lines waiting for pay
◉ a brief overview of a paymasters duties includes:
Answer: take care of the money, watched for security, and
bookkeeping
◉ In a process similar to HR, the scope and tasks of the paymasters
expanded. All paymasters were grouped together into a single office
called:
Answer: Payroll
◉ In time, payroll was assigned to:
Answer: Personnel
◉ Initially the two main roles of the payroll department was: