During the last few decades information management techniques and open source softwaremovement has revolutionized the way organizational processes work in corporations. Processes havebecome more centralized, connected and collaborative. Inter-connected databases, reports andresources have been a key factor for faster production and communication within organizationsthat are dispersed globally through web 2.0. Use of data centers, mail clients, security systems, e-commerce, online processing and automated concatenated communication systems have been acrucial factor in implementing efficient business processes. Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft andPeachTree has successfully been implemented in organizational settings for digitalizing paperworkand streamlining it to ensure faster access and efficient workforce management. Thesetechnologies have been operational and successfully used for accounting, human resources andcustomer services to manage the workforce in large enterprises.

On one hand these technological innovations and digital management of employee documents havemade corporate processing faster and lives of end-users easier. Credit card processing controls allthe processes that are part of a larger transaction e.g currency conversion, authentication, fundtransfers, credit limit management. DNA scanners ensure faster and reliable secure access.Databases and its categorization mechanisms have made it easier to sort out employee andcustomer databases in huge enterprises according to a specific criteria e.g month, date,department, sale type, invoice number and purchase id. This inter connectedness can be found inlarger enterprises. Swedish centralized system of university admission Studera is a great exampleof open, cost-efficient and paperless system of processing applications and disseminating it touniversities applied through its one-window process. Students can choose, read, and apply aboutprograms through the website with a single set of documents. According to studentchoices, priorities are set, cover sheet is prepared which should be printed and required documentsshould be attached and sent to Studera's address. These documents are then scanned by Studerastaff and disseminated to relevant universities. Once this process is complete, student accountsare associated with their documents forever and you don't have to send documents again wheneveryou want to apply to a degree program again in Sweden. Through Studera's application interface youcould apply to different programmes forever.

Islam values accountability, openness and responsibility. Technology, social media and web 2.0revolution has made it easier to cross-check, compare and analyze the information with Islamicprinciples and injunctions. Second Caliph Umar bin Khatab (Razi Allah Tallah Unho) has been a rolemodel for strict, efficient and pragmatic governance. He reigned over 2/3rd of the world and hisempire was highly centralized, egalitarian and systematic. This is the evidence of viability andpragmatism of Islamic values and principles even in absence of sophisticated technology andresources. With highly networked and intricate communication and management systems it isincreasingly possible to create an egalitarian networked and participatory system subjected topublic scrutiny according to Islamic values. In historical events, we find a case brought againstCaliph Umar (Razi Allah Tallah Unho) by an ordinary citizen. During the process of distribution ofclothes in the Mosque an ordinary citizen stood up and asked second caliph and the most powerfulruler of his times about his right to have two pieces of cloth instead of one like everyone else.Second Caliph asked his son to answer that question. His son stood up and said that since my fatheris very tall and single piece and cloth would not cover his body, he gave his piece of cloth to hisfather. This satisfied the question and also became an example of scrutiny, openness andaccountability for generations to come. Islamic history is replete with such examples. ProphetMuhammad PBUH's refusal to condone the punishment of a woman who was punished for stealingbecause she belong to a wealthy family, Hazrat Abu Bakar (Razi Allah Tallah Unho)'s selling clothesin markets of Mecca inspite of being the ruler of a huge empire, and literally every ruler's incognitoinspection of markets, residential places and suburbs are evidence of Islamic upright principles andstrict impartiality.

Current human resource practices have been profit-oriented, capitalistic and commercialized.Fortune 500 have been accused of worst human rights violations and worst workplace practices.

Different corporate research websites and watchdog groups have been following these corporationsfor decades now. Crocodyl.org a famous and thorough corporate research wiki started incollaboration with corpwatch.com has been a key resource for corporate research and exploitativetactics. Many documentaries have unveiled the worst incidents of child abuse, harrassement, powerpolitics, overtime, unsafe work conditions and physical violence against women. Michael Moore's'Sicko' 'Roger & Me' and 'The Big One' have been a serious blow to US corporate world and freemarket myth as a whole. Roger & Me muckraked the CEO of Roger Smith for closing a Buick plantand throwing out thousands of employees in different areas of US. It was released in 1988 and wasone of the earliest attempt to wage a journalistic war against corporate criminals. With increasedUN bullying and American military pressure on third world, outsourcing has become a cheap solutionfor developed world to abuse foreign workers through unsafe working conditions, hard deadlinesand cheap wages. Moore's another attempt to cover an American corporate holocaust was 'The BigOne'. This time he took Phil Knight, CEO of Nike for his dirty practices and exploitation ofindonesian workforce in Nike's plant in Indonesia. His latest Academy Award winning documentary'Sicko' run down drug companies for their greed-filled, indifference for human life. Symbioticrelationship of politicians and drug companies made health care in US a living hell for ordinarycitizens with insurance companies and health care industry an eldorado.

McLibel was another attempt by Mcdonalds to intimidate two British citizens who were campaigningMcDonalds because of their unsafe food and below the belt marketing strategies. Campaigning inschools, colleges and universities, convincing youth to use junk food and using monetary incentivesfor that was one of the tricks. McDonalds sue two citizens for that and documentary is the story offight of two friends against McDonalds. British legal system did not provide defendants with alawyer so they had to fight their own case. Whole legal system was biased against citizens. Initiallythey lost the case and were fined that they never paid. They sued the whole English legal systemfor not providing defendants with lawyers in European Court of Human Rights and won against thewhole system.

‘The Money Masters’ has been another documentary that analyzes the economic system based oninterest and fiat money in length chronologically from ancient times. It gradually travels from pastto present analyzing the effects of official decrees and timeline of global financial system and thehavoc it wreaked on human society.

‘Walmart – High Cost of Low Price’ is another eye opening documentary about Walmart stores,world’s largest corporation. It was ranked 1st in profits in 2008. It has a history of unfairworkplace practices that includes harassment, anti-unionization, bullying, wage cuts, lay-offs andoff-shoring.

Another heart touching documentary is ‘Santa’s Workshop’ about Chinese factories where childrenmake toys for children in developed world which are sold on Christmas. Injustice of today’s world onhow different children deserve different treatment because of their birthplaces is excruciating.

The Corporation was probably one of the best efforts in collecting corporate crime records andanalyzed the history of free market and capitalism that has been the flawed and defunct theory ofglobal business today. With interviews and case studies from reputed scholars like Noam Chomskyand Naomi Klein, documentary was one of the best attempts to dissect the corporate culture andrun-over philosophy.

Success of Islamic management of state affairs, human resources and western avarice andmaterialism calls for an egalitarian, democratic system of human resources and corporategovernance according to Islamic principles. Technological advances and guidelines from Hadith,Quran and Fiqa together will result in a technologically and spiritually a humanistic operationalsystem free of human flaws. With the advent of social media and open source applicationsproliferation of information and centralized reporting and governance has been easier and more

functional. Globalized nature of today's business and the fact that geographically dispersed officesaround the globe are well connected and functional is an evidence of possibility of an open, fair, andcollaborative system.

One of the technologies that can be used for dissemination of corporate records, financials, real-time updates and corporate issues is Wiki. Corporations and businesses are a part of social sphereowing to society and globe as a whole. Wiki structure of piped links and concatenated informationhas been a solid reason for it to be used as corporate reporting and public relation blackboard.Most of the information in corporate world about wages, laws, policies, procedures, financials,employee contracts, resources, queries and strategies is not readily available for public scrutiny.According to Islamic principles of openness and accountability, a business operating withoutfollowing Islamic ways of conducting business, knowledge, and fair practice has no right to operatein Islamic jurisdiction. From packaging to marketing and from information sharing to servicedelivery whole process of Islamic business is based on truth, trust and integrity. Complying withnormative and theoretical guidelines of Quran and Hadith it not only morally but professionallyunethical to conduct business using false promises and deceptive wordings. It is disrespectful ofpeople and their right to live in a society that operates on principles of trust, honesty and respect.

Wikis have been one of the most effective social collaborative tool of our times. With the hugesuccess and evolution of Wikipedia, Wikispaces, Wetpaint and WikiEducator, the MediaWikiSoftware has been an open source application for the Wiki software. It is written in PHP and isavailable in 100 languages. Developed by Brion Vibber in 2002 who works as Release Manager atWikimedia Foundation, it has came a long way from its initial release. The product logo was createdby Erik Moeller using a flower photograph taken by Florence Nibart-Devouard, and was originallysubmitted to an international logo contest for a new Wikipedia logo held in summer 200. MediaWikisupports rich content generated through specialized syntax. For example, the software comes withsupport for rendering mathematical formulas using LaTeX and a special parser written in OCaml.Similar functionality for other content, ranging from graphical timelines over mathematical plottingand musical scores to Egyptian hieroglyphs, is available in the form of extensions and also aestheticsense has improved considerably. It is licensed under GPL General Public License and is open sourcework that means everyone can collaborate and help in development of this software. More humaninvolvement means more sophistication, less flaws and continuous improvement in technology. Data isstored in MySQL another open source project. Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so thatusers without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.

Wikipedia’s success as collaborative learning resource has been a phenomenonal evidence of theviablility of a centralized database of information updated over time. This can be a repository fororganizational data too. From departmental records to financials to strategies can all be embeddedeasily in wiki structure. Corporate researchers can easily match information against the laws andstandard practices. MediaWiki saves all versions and revisions made to a document and has achronological record of changes. This makes it easier to track updations and incongruences. Thisinformation can later be used to ask questions about anomalies and non-standard practices. Pagescan be exported in pdf format through rich MediaWiki Extensions that can be viewed at itswebsite. Other social media tools helpful for reporting and multimedia support are available and canbe incorporated in wikis through a range of MediaWiki Extensions. MediaWiki can be made moreadvanced and useful for various purposes through its extensions. Many of the available extensionsare simple scripts to allow embedding content such as Adobe Flash files or HTML forms. Othersadd complex new behavior to the wiki syntax, such as Semantic MediaWiki which provides theability to add structured and searchable relations and attributes to wiki pages (cf. semantic web).Examples of extensions that could improve a wiki are:

Ratings extension

Category suggestion extensionRSS feed inclusionFlash inclusionYouTube inclusion

The nature of corporate information makes it harder for it to keep this informationcomprehensible, streamlined and learning process easy. Information overload can be a big problemin organizational learning and performance. Wikis are optimized for heavy usage and robustness.Because it is used to run one of the highest traffic sites on the Internet, Wikipedia, MediaWikiperformance and scalability have been highly optimized. MediaWiki supports Squid caches, load-balanced database replication, client-side caching, memcached or table-based caching forfrequently accessed processing of query results, a simple static file cache, feature-reducedoperation, revision compression, and a job queue for database operations.

Corporate intranets are also a viable solution for disseminating information if public access isavailable to corporate information on a secure and participatory level. Governmental controls andscrutiny against laws and human rights can be monitored in real time if this information can be madeaccessible to people who are stakeholders as end-users.

Bigger part of failure of corporations as customer-focused, honest businesses is its inability tomake its processes and policies open and accessible to public. This view is corroborated bycontemporary initiatives of some corporations employing open source and collaborative technologies.Google Inc. could be one of the examples. Its strong suit is its participatory, friendly and word ofmouth strategies. It has outdone its rivals in almost every service launched by Google. Gmail, GoogleCalendar, Google Documents and recent purchase of YouTube has been a great achievement andworkability of its Advertising based revenue model and participatory, open-access technologies. Itsinformation management and Knowledge management and design has been its core competency.Although it has not gone open source and would have been more successful.

Information networks and social networking in facebook, largest social networking website can alsoserve as the role model for open, connected and automated information handling system. Variablesare structurally connected to each other through mathematically analyzed permutations andcombinations. Comments, photos, status messages, contact details and activities can be centralizedand shared in real time. With contact detail import from email services like gmail, its even easier tomanage information networks. A similar platform can be designed for corporate informationdissemination and put out to public scrutiny. Stock exchanges can use similar public relations portaland should be made responsible and accountable for information put online and to answer thequestions regarding any anomalies and deviations from the norm. Earnings, employee records, hiringand firing data, customer databases, health and travel bills and transactions can all be stored andcan be made searchable. Search keywords could be categorized by name of employee, department,month, week, year, location and designation. All variables can be made inter-connected withmathematically connecting all possible combinations and permutations.

Well-connected, open and cross-checkable HRMSs is the way to create egalitarian workplace.Accountability and transparency is a top priority for an Islamic organization and society as well.More research and development is needed to further develop this theoretical model ofconcatenated HRISs.