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1.1 Introduction As the most essential element of Business, the importance of Human Resource is increasing day by day. The more the world is developing, the more efficient human resource it requires. Because it is human resource without which the other elements of business- land, capital, enterprise, can result nothing. With the effort of human resource all his land, labor, capital, enterprise form a proper adjustment to do business. So the HR practice in an organization becomes a major fact to
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