Exam 2: Aligning HR With Strategy

A resource-based view of HR involves the thinking that different strategies require different behaviours from employees,which in turn are influenced by different HR practices.

What is human capital? What comprises human capital?

Payroll represents a routine activity that must be done for the organization to operate on a daily basis.What term best describes this type of activity?

Johnson and Johnson outsourced its administration work to locations such as Prague and Manila,but kept its HR talent management practices internally managed through its corporate centre,adopting HR practices that are linked to the organizations success.What emerging trend best describes the structure of the HR functions at Johnson and Johnson?

Making decisions,such as how to best use human capital,is an example of a transactional activity in HR.