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Also Known As	employee relations • personnel management • manpower management

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employee training staffing recruitment rewarding seniority system screening profit sharing nomenklatura industrial relations labour natural resource management production management Total Quality Management logistics chairperson line-staff organization matrix organization managerial economics critical path analysis flowchart

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Mary Parker Follett

American sociologist