31.   Each year, Mercer, a human resource management consulting firm, surveys midsize to large employers nationally.

32.   Emotional intelligence, sometimes abbreviated to EI or EQ, in a takeoff from IQ, has become a hot human resource consulting area in the last two years.

33.   Even though he knew plenty about the Human Resources department, he would often play dumb and ask candidates for the department what exactly a human resource director does.

34.   Employee care services include health and welfare administration, human resource administration, pension and savings care.

35.   Employee-care services include health and welfare administration, human resource administration, pension and savings care.

36.   Foundation Technologies of Waltham, a company that develops Internet software for human resource departments, ran into just that problem last fall.

37.   Fraser offers several ways for companies to change their human resource policies to promote employee loyalty at a time when good workers are getting harder to find.

38.   Greg Nakanishi, president of GN Resources, a human resource consulting company in Houston, knows exactly what the consultant is talking about.

39.   Grote is a human resource consultant who lives in Dallas and recently spoke to a group of managers at a seminar sponsored by the outplacement firm Drake Beam Morin.

40.   GSI provides payroll banking, clearing and human resource information services in several European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K.