Halo error, 216

Handwriting analysis, 170–171

Hay Guide Chart Profile Method, 304

Hazard Communication Standard, 506

Hazardous chemicals

• exposure to, 517, 558

• OSHA and, 506–508, 525–526

Haz-Map, 517, 518–519

Health. See Workplace safety/health

Health care

• in Canada, 362

• costs of, 374, 378–379

• employee incentives for healthy habits, 394–395, 522

Health insurance

• cost containment issues for, 378–379

• for employees’ partners, 378

• explanation of, 364, 373–374

• health maintenance organizations, 375

• health savings accounts, 378

• legislation related to, 374–375

• preferred provider organizations, 375, 376

• tax policy and, 364

• traditional, 375–376

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 374–375

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), 375, 376

Health savings accounts (HSAs), 378

Healthy living incentives, 333–334, 522

Hearing impairment, 515–516

High-deductible health plans (HDHPs), 379

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), 374–375

Hiring. See Employee recruitment/selectionRecruitment

Hiring freeze, 192

Hispanics, 6, 131–132

HIV/AIDS, 510–513

HMOs (health maintenance organizations), 375, 376

Holidays, 387

Homosexuals, 130–131

Honesty tests, 167

Horizontal skills, 311

Hostile work environment sexual harassment, 90

Hotlines, 415, 418

Hot-stove rule, 448

HR. See Human resources (HR)

HRIS. See Human resource information systems(HRIS)

HRM. See Human resource management (HRM)

HRP. See Human resource planning (HRP)

HSAs (health savings accounts), 378

Human resource information systems (HRIS)

• applications of, 74–75

• explanation of, 74

• security and privacy of, 75

Human resource management (HRM)

• culture-specific HR, 564–565

• environmental challenges of, 3–10

• for expatriates, 549

• exporting firms and, 556–559

• in global context, 550–556

• global practices, 556

• impact of labor unions on, 491–493

• individual challenges of, 17–20

• managerial perspective on, 2

• organizational challenges of, 12

• proactive, 478

• specialization in, 35

Human resource planning (HRP)

• explanation of, 150

• guidelines for, 455–456

Human resource practices, 33–34

Human resources (HR)

• audit, 35

• controlling costs of, 11

• explanation of, 2

• supply and demand, 150–155

Human resource strategies

• benefits of, 21–22

• choosing HR tactics to implement, 33

• explanation of, 2

• as fit with environment, 30–31

• as fit with organizational capabilities, 32

• as fit with organizational characteristics, 31–32

• as fit with organizational strategies, 28–30

• to increase performance, 27–34

Human resource tactics, 2, 33

Hybrid pension plans, 384. See also Retirement plans