Managing Human Resources, Eight Edition

Human Resource Management: The Challenges

Managers are people who are in charge of others and who are responsible for the timely and correct execution of actions that promote their units’ successful performance. In this book, we use the term unit broadly; it may refer to a work team, department, business unit, division, or corporation.

manager

A person who is in charge of others and is responsible for the timely and correct execution of actions that promote his or her unit’s success.

line employee

An employee involved directly in producing the company’s good(s) or delivering the service(s).

staff employee

An employee who supports line employees.

All employees (including managers) can be differentiated as line or staff. Line employees ...