In contemporary organizations, human resource $($HR$)$ professionals engage in a broad range of activities. From an employee$$s perspective, HR is involved in the entire employment life cycle from recruitment and selection, onboarding, professional development, and separation. From the organization$$s perspective, many HR functional activities are purely operational while other activities are potentially of higher impact, in some cases enabling organizations to gain a sustained competitive advantage.

This activity is important as understanding the range of HR activities can allow companies to align and prioritize HR functional activities to support the strategic focus of the enterprise.

Match each statement with the appropriate area of HR functional expertise.