QUESTION

(a) A company's employees are its most important resources. Describe Five responsibilities of the HR Department in a company

(b) How can an integrated Human Resources information system be used to detect potential pay discrimination before it becomes systematic?

(c) In 1996, the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) ran a routine investigation of Boeing's Philadelphia plant. Because Boeing works on government contracts, the Federal Government has the right to audit Boeing's compliance with anti-discrimination laws and by comparing median pay of male and female employees and their median job experience, the OFCCP found a "prima facie" case of discrimination. Boeing settled its discrimination lawsuit for $72.5 million

(i.) Could there have been any other lawsuit costs associated with the case?

(ii.) How would they have been compared to the financial cost of the settlement?

(d) Companies are moving from EDI to Internet-based Procurement which is the use of Internet technologies for procurement activities. Assume you have just graduated and you are hired at a Manufacturing Company that manufactures Chocolate bars, as its new purchasing agent. The person you replaced has just retired after 35 years in the job. You are eager to put to use some of the skills you learned at UTM, especially the work you did on B2B e-commerce. Write a memo to your new boss, discussing about the virtues of e-commerce and why the company should move towards Internet Procurement

(e) Web Services are a combination of software tools that lets various programs within an organization communicate with other applications. NetWeaver is SAP's Web services platform and is a collection of components that supports business processes over the Internet. Describe Five of the modules which are included in the SAP's NetWeaver platform