Rose Holcomb is the CEO of Holcomb Engineering, a small but growing firm. She believes that the talents and abilities of her company's employees are underutilized and wants to bring someone into the organization who can help her devise more effective human resource strategies. Thus, she has decided to hire her firm's first human resource manager. Rose's decision: Question 16 options: a) may well improve the firm's profitability, because boosting employee effectiveness can give a firm a key competitive advantage. b) may result in better morale but is unlikely to help the firm financially. c) will lead to unnecessary expenses, because managers in other functional areas of the business are perfectly capable of performing human resource functions on their own. d) is likely to result in a movement among workers to form a union