Please provide a brief reply to the following discussion board:
If you were in the process of developing a plan for an internal human resources audit, what materials, articles, books, and resources would you include in your plan and why?
If I were in the process of developing a plan, I would include a copy of the employee handbook because you want to make sure that everyone involved in the process is aware and knowledgeable of what is required of each employee. This also gives or refreshes employees knowledge of what incentives are available for excelling in performance. (Noe) 2018. The policy and procedure manual so that policy review can be conducted. Code of Ethics for the company should be reviewed to ensure understanding of what is allowed and disallowed by the company or school. Files and records (financial, personnel) that are relevant to the audit. A PowerPoint presentation outlining the details of the audit. And the appropriate personnel, as not all employees or subordinates are privy to the information that will be discussed in the audit process. A book on how the audit process works because maybe not everyone involved has been part of an audit. And a journal article or two recently published on the findings of an audit that has taken place in a comparable setting.
What is the relationship between such audits and the academic or training operations of a business or school?
According to Diligent Insight, internal auditing is an evaluative process used to improve the operations of a school district. Internal audits for schools give the district an idea of what needs to be improved on, it analyzes ethics, district practices, checks compliance with all local, state, and federal mandates, finances, and technology. Internal auditors however have no authority in the decision-making process. They can only conduct the audit and make recommendations to the board of education.
Personal experiences to support thoughts
I was involved in a few audits during my time with the state. Some of them were external, the agency has to maintain accreditation with the American Correctional Association (ACA). We had to be audited bi-yearly but had to conduct internal mock audits on the off-year. The internal audits were more tedious in my opinion because everything had to be right. For you to pass the external audit, the offices being audited had to have a 95% pass rate. The internal audits took place by area- meaning you have one area, usually three to four counties under the supervision of one area manager, and an assistant area manager in each county office. Your office could pass the internal audit, another could fail. To get 100%, because that was what we strived for, each office had to pull together. If you didnt know the meaning of teamwork, you quickly learned when it was time for an audit. As a senior officer, I will admit there were times when my attitude came out during the process because the work doesnt stop. You had to continue to work your caseload, and everything that came along with it; intakes, office visits, home visits, transports, court dockets, revocation hearings, courtesy visits, etc., and audit the computer files of your co-workers for every person on their caseload, and submit the findings to them in order for them to input the missing data, submit a corrective action plan, they send it back to you for review, and then you submit a report to the Assistant Area Manager and signing off on it stating that you have reviewed the case file, it had been submitted a correction, it had been sent back to you for review again, and that it was now correct. It was a lot, and we worked a lot of extra hours that we were not compensated for because this state agency does not pay overtime. We had to flex off the hours that were accrued, but we only had a two-week time frame to do it. That was nearly impossible seeing as how we usually ended up working over every day just to try and stay on top of things. Audits can be very draining, mentally, and physically. All complaints aside, I do feel that they are necessary for any entity to be successful and maintain operation because they do give you a lot of insight as to what is going on, what needs to be fixed, and what practices need to be done away with. They do assist in getting things to flow properly. They do help the bottom line.
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