Strategic Human Resource Management Refers to ________

question 43

Multiple Choice

Strategic human resource management refers to ________.

• A) formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve strategic aims
• B) planning the balance of internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain competitive advantage
• C) emphasizing the knowledge, education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm's workers
• D) extending a firm's sales, ownership, and manufacturing to new markets
• E) managing a firm's insurance benefits administration process

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Definitions:

Railroad Companies

Businesses that operate trains for transporting goods and passengers on tracks.

Fifteenth Amendment

An amendment to the US Constitution ratified in 1870, guaranteeing voting rights regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Right to Vote

The entitlement of citizens in a democracy to participate in elections to choose their representatives, considered a fundamental political right.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The 1848 agreement that ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the U.S. acquiring territories from Mexico, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.