Human Resource
Information System
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Self-Instructional
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Compensation function
o Costs of employees in terms of turnover
o Connection between productivity and wages
o Effect of money on work motivation
Maintenance function
o Causes and costs of employee separation
o Absenteeism, turnover and other indicators of organizational health
o Incentives needed for voluntary separation (VRS), if necessary
Integration function
o Causes of change in productivity level
o Cost of adoption to environmental changes
o Impact of changes in technology and markets
Computerized HRIS
A computerized HRIS is an information system that makes use of computers to
monitor, control and influence the movement of human beings from the time they
indicate their intention to join an organization till the time they leave the
organization. According to S. Chandrashekar, it consists of the following
subsystems:
Recruitment information: It includes advertisement module, applicant’s
profile, appointment and placement data.
Personnel administration information:It consists of personnel needs of
an employee concerning leaves, transfer, promotion, increment, etc.
Manpower planning information:It offers data that could help human
resource mobilization, career planning, succession planning and inputs for
skill development.
Training information: It provides information for designing course
material, arranging need-based training and appraising the training
programme, etc.
Health information:It consists of data related to health, welfare and safety
of employees.
Payroll information:It provides data regarding wages, salaries, incentives,
allowances, fringe benefits, deductions for provident fund, etc.
Personnel research information:It is a bank of historic and current data
about employee attitude, turnover,absenteeism, which may be used for
different types of analyses
