Which of the following primary activities of a firm corresponds to its support activity of human resources?

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Question restatement: Which of the following primary activities of a firm corresponds to its support activity of human resources?

Option A: Final assembly. This is a bona fide primary activity within the Operations category. While human resources (HR) support all primary activities in general, final assembly is the production step that directly relies on skilled labor, workforce planning, training, and staffing that HR provides. In other words, HR services are immediately relevant to ensuring the workforce needed for final assembly is available and capable.

Option B: Marketing. Marketing is another primary activity, focused on demand generation and sales support. HR does support marketing (as with staffing and training), but the question seeks the primary activity that corresponds to the HR function in a more direct sense. Since HR underpins the entire value chain rather than matching a specific one, this makes marketing a less precise one-to-one correspondence than final assembly.

Option C: Components. This term likely points to inbound logistics or procurement of parts, which are components used in production. HR does contribute to staffing for procurement and logistics roles, but labeling components as a primary activity is a bit of a stretch; the more accurate mapping in Porter’s framework is that components relate to inbound logistics or procurement as functions, with HR supporting roles across them rather than a tight correspondence.

Option D: Research and development. In Porter’s value chain, R&D is part of technology development, which is a support activity, not a primary activity. Therefore, this option is misaligned with the premise of being a primary activity, making it incorrect for the stated question.

Summary of reasoning: The core idea is that HR is a support activity that sustains the firm’s capabilities across primary activities. Among the listed options, final assembly is the primary activity most directly tied to the HR function’s day-to-day impact (staffing, skill development, and workforce readiness for the production step). Marketing and components are primary activities but either involve HR in a less direct or more generic supportive role, or in the case of components, the term refers to a logistics/procurement activity rather than a clear primary activity to which HR maps. R&D is a support activity, not a primary activity, so it doesn’t fit the mapping described in the question.

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