Rose Holcomb Is the CEO of Freeman Engineering, a Small

Multiple Choice

Rose Holcomb is the CEO of Freeman Engineering, a small but growing firm. She believes that the talents and abilities of her company's employees are underutilized and wants to bring someone into the organization who can help her devise more effective human resource strategies. Thus, she has decides to hire her firm's first human resource manager. Rose's decision:

A) will result in better morale but will not help the firm financially.
B) will lead to unnecessary expenses, because managers in other functional areas of the business are perfectly capable of performing human resource functions on their own.
C) will result in a movement among workers to form a union.
D) will boost organizational effectiveness and give the firm a key competitive advantage.