Megan McCoy has a bachelor's degree in business management and human resources. She has 5 years of HR experience as an HR assistant with her current employer. Megan thinks that with her education and experience, she is qualified for the position of HR manager. After observing her own boss, she feels confident that she could do that job. However, Megan knows that she does not see everything that her boss does, and may not be aware of all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities (TDRs) of the job, and the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) necessary to do the job. To get more information about the occupation of an HR Manager, Megan did some research using the Occupational Information Network (O*NET).

1). The general function of the job of Human Resource Manager is to

A). Interact with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services, and to handle and resolve complaints
B). Plan, direct, and coordinate human resource management activities of an organization and maintain functions such as employee compensation, recruitment, etc.
C). Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization
D). Supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers
E). Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on ability, and date of and a reason for termination

The correct option of this question is (B). Explanation of this answer is given below in the explanation section

Explanation:

(B) is Correct Option:

Human resource manager in an organization is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating human resource management activities such as employee compensation, employee recruitment, promotions offer to an employee, etc. The major duties of the HR manager is to manage the human resource in an organization.

Why other options are not correct

(A). Interaction with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services, and to handle and resolve complaints is not the responsibility of the HRM manager. It is the responsibility of the Marketing department and customer service department. In short, the customer service and marketing department are mainly responsible to perform such activities in an organization.

(C). Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization is the responsibility of the accounting department. And, accounting manager is responsible for such types of activities to perform in an organization.

(D) Supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers is the responsibility of Admin (a managerial post) working in the administrative unit of an organization. Usually, at this post, first-line manager, team lead, assistant manager are working under the supervision of the administrative department.

(C) Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on ability, and date of and a reason for termination is also a responsibility of the HRM and sales department. However, it is noted some responsibility such as employee record management is the sole responsibility of the HRM department and HRM manager. But termination of an employee, absence recording, amount of sales or production are the responsibility of other departments such as the administrative department, sales department, and marketing department, etc. However, this option is also correct in a sense only if employee management involved, otherwise, this option is not correct.

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