21.  But human resource managers said they were not worried.

22.  But retailers, retail analysts and human resource professionals say that over the last decade the tempo has picked up considerably.

23.  But there are some good books out there, and human resource managers, executives, professors and others have weighed in with their favorites.

24.  Calls would come in from gay or lesbianemployees who had been harassed, even physically threatened, and wanted their human resource departments to take some action.

25.  Cigna, for example, developed a system that lets human resource executives and individuals get information directly from Cigna computers via the Internet.

26.  Companies that complain mightily about high staff turnover rates may have their own human resource policies to blame.

27.  Countless human resource seminars, articles, books and press releases echo these simple-to-say but hard-to-adopt prescriptions for motivated workplaces.

28.  Craigie, who lives in Cohasset, has a graduate degree in education from Boston University and another in human resource management from American University.

29.  Culhane is a human resource consultant to small businesses in California, and she was showing me how she does her job.

30.  Consider Connie Richardson, administrative manager of the Johnson County human resource department.