It’s been years since I’ve been in a college classroom. Still, I vividly recall an undergraduate Principles of Management course at Southeast Missouri State University, where I first encountered the ...

Human resources functions are significantly different from HR practices. Functions are comprised of transactional activities that can be handled in-house or easily outsourced. Practices are part ...

In 1916, a French coal mine director named Henri Fayol wrote a book entitled "Administration Industrielle et Generale," which set forth five distinct functions of managing that Fayol insisted were ...