A minimum of two postings of between 200 and 300 words each are required in response to each forum discussion question.

Access the forum discussion questions using the relevant links on the subject's Portal page. You are required to post at least one direct response to each of the forum discussion questions and one response to other people's postings. In order to stimulate discussion, lecturers may make postings from time-to-time and these can be responded to also.

Outsourcing

John Doucette, CIO of United Technologies, states that ‘If you're not the lowest-cost provider of that service, you need to contract it out' (Overby 2003). However, central to the Zappos business model and its success was to make insourcing decisions based on the criticality of the function to customer service.

Based on the readings in the ‘Outsourcing' section and your own experience or research of outsourcing, how viable do you think outsourcing is as a human capital strategy?

You may wish to consider one or more of the questions below in your response. These are suggestions only. You can consider other issues:

o With pressures on costs, is outsourcing inevitable?
o Does outsourcing give businesses a competitive edge?
o What needs to be done to make outsourcing successful?
o Should outsourcing always be under consideration as part of an organisation's strategic HR management?

Best recultment practices

How does an organisation best execute recruitment? What are some exemplary strategies from your own or another organisation that have provided desired outcomes? Why do you think these strategies resulted were successful?

Write a paragraph or two with a brief rationale and respond to the posts of at least two other students.

Pay Equity and Comparable Worth

Pay equity is the principle that employees undertaking the same or comparable work should receive the same level of remuneration irrespective of their gender. In all areas of HR practice, including determining pay levels, it is unlawful for Australian employers to discriminate between employees purely on the basis of gender. However, in Australia, as elsewhere, the gender pay gap persists.

a Why does the gender pay gap persist, who is responsible for it, and what (if anything) can be done about it?