As a senior internal auditor for a large industrial organization, you have been assigned to perform an audit of the personnel function. Your preliminary survey disclosed the following information:

1. The personnel department is responsible for establishing company-wide procedures to carry out management's personnel policies. These procedures are administered by local management in the various plants.

2. A year ago the company adopted an affirmative action program for recruiting new employees and evaluating personnel for possible promotion.

3. The personnel department has established a detailed system of job classification analysis with corresponding compensation grades.

Required:

Develop a series of questions to organize your major concerns in preparing a detailed audit program, particularly in regard to the following areas:

a. Coordination of company-wide personnel policies and procedures with management at regional plants and offices.

b. Elements of a system to provide adequate control over the affirmative action program.

c. Assurance that minority employees hired under the affirmative action program will be able to meet standard job classification requirements.

d. Effectiveness of the job classification and related compensation program in meeting market competition.