I. Introduction...............................1
             II. Organization Information...................1
             III. Background Information.....................2
             IV. Role of Human Resources....................3
             V. Performance Appraisals.....................5
             VI. Closing....................................6
             VII. Works Cited................................7
             Human resource management is part of the human resource approach, which is evidently geared to allow organizations to benefit in two significant ways: increasing in the organization's effectiveness and satisfying all of the employee's needs. Organizational goals and employee needs are considered mutual and compatible in this approach, instead of simply addressing them as separate things. In other words, one need cannot be gained at the expense of the other. The human resource manager in charge of the corporate office of a large brewing company, and also the manager that I interviewed, is Michelle Hagen. Mrs. Hagen is the benefits and risk manager of Gordon Biersch.
             Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch founded their first restaurant in Palo Alto in 1988. What began as a single restaurant brewery collaboration soon turned into a chain. A little over two years ago, Trolley Barn Breweries Holding Company, which consists of many Big River Grille restaurants, Rock Bottom, A1A Ale House and Seven Bridges Bar & Grille, purchased the rights to the Gordon Biersch restaurants. The new company still retains the Gordon Biersch name. The two founding members still run the
             brewery based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. The lucrative
             merger blends the West Coast brewing style, which uses the unique German style of brewing, with the one of a kind microbreweries of the East. This merger incorporated twenty-five restaurants and two more have opened in the past year. Gordon Biersch corporate offices are responsible for controlling the success that is obtained throughout the r...