| Halo effect: Rating a person high or low on all items because of one characteristic. |
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| Handbilling: Practice in which unions distribute written publicity in order to convince employees to sign authorization cards. |
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| Health: A general state of physical, mental, and emotional well-being. |
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| Health maintenance organization (HMO): Managed care plan that provides services for a fixed period on a prepaid basis. |
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| Host-country national: An employee working in a unit or plant who is citizen of the country in which the unit or plant is located, but where the unit or plant is operated by an organization headquartered in another country. |
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| HR audit: A formal research effort that evaluates the current state of HR management in an organization. |
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| HR generalist: A person with responsibility of performing a variety of HR activities. |
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| HR research: The analysis of data from HR records to determine the effectiveness of past and present HR practices. |
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| HR specialist: A person with in-depth knowledge and expertise in a limited area of HR. |
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| HR strategies: The means used to aid the organization in anticipating and managing the supply and demand for human resources. |
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| Human capital: The total value of human resources to the organization. |
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| Human Resource (HR) management: The design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to accomplish the organizational goals. |
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| Human Resource (HR) planning: The process of analyzing and identifying the need for and availability of human resources so that the organization can meet its objectives. |
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| Human resource information system (HRIS): An integrated system designed to provide information used in HR decision making. |
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