Rose Holcomb Is the CEO of Holcomb Engineering, a Small

Multiple Choice

Rose Holcomb is the CEO of Holcomb 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 decided to hire her firm's first human resource manager. What will be the likely result of Rose's decision?

A) It may result in a movement among workers to form a union.
B) It may 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) It may result in better morale but is unlikely to help the firm financially.
D) It may well improve the firm's profitability.