Question: 73 Overtime conditions and pay were recently set by the human resources department. The production department has just received a request for a rush order from the sales department. The production department protests that additional overtime costs will be incurred as a result of the order. The sales department argues that the order is from an important customer. The production department processes the order. To control costs, which department should never be charged with the overtime costs generated as a result of the rush order? A. Human resources department. Answer (A) is correct. The sales department should be responsible for the overtime costs because it can best judge whether the additional cost of the rush order is justified. The production department also may be held responsible for the overtime costs because charging the full overtime cost to the sales department would give the production department no incentive to control these costs. However, the human resources department would never be charged with the overtime costs because it has no effect on the incurrence of production overtime. B. Production department. C. Sales department. D. Shared by production department and sales department