Summary

Thursday, 25 October, 2012

In chapter 1, I learnt about human resource recruiting and staffing that includes the online recruitment. The online recruitment objectives that need to be emphasized which are cost of the filling job opening, speed of filling job vacancy, psychological contract fulfillment, employee satisfaction, and retention rates, quantity, quality, and diversity of applicants.  

In chapter 2, I studied about the information and competitive advantage. There are five competitive forces that influences the competition structure which are rivalry of competitors within its industry, threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, the bargaining power of customers and suppliers. The factors that influenced the achievement of competitive advantages also I cover it. 

Chapter 3 discussed web-based employee self service. The introduction of ESS has been clarified by explaining the usage of this system. Besides, it also included the advantage of this system such as give benefit to the employees the information that relate to the company and the employer also can directly get the various type of documents easily from ESS. (167 words)