Curtis Strite
During WWII: development of the personnel function; EE motivated by social and psychological factors, not just money
was primarily concerned with routine transactional and traditional HR activities to dealing with complex transformational activities
routine bookkeeping tasks
selection, compensation, performance appraisal
add value to the consumption of the firm's product/service
Pre-WWII
computer technology was just beginning to be used
effective and correct practices affecting the bottom line of firms
needed to harness technology that was becoming cheaper and more powerful
increased use of technology changed the focus of the HRM
technology
timely and accurate information on current ee and potential ee in the labor market
the development of HRIS helped enable HRM to become a strategic partner in organizations, when then led to the emergence of strategic HRM.
reducing the amount of time the HR staff needs to spend on transactional activities
streamlining operations through business process reengineering
DMAIC
making comprehensive info into a single, comprehensive database
improved transaction speed and accuracy
provide key data to managers
provides aggregate, high-level data
interactive and iterative managerial decision making
embed human knowledge into IS
designing documents
supports electronic communication and collaboration between EE
impacts the laws, competition, govt. regulations, technology, societal concerns, and HRM research in the external environment in the organization
impacts the internal processes, programs, and function w/in the organization and the heart that will act as a storage and a monitor of these activities is the HRIS
Uses IT as the central component of delivering efficient and effective HR services
the hardware, software, people forms, policies and procedures, and data that helps to reduce the amount of time spent on transactional activities
Ensuring data integrity in both personnel files and the online HRIS
produced, stored, updated, and used by HR EE and managers on a daily basis
interpretation of data
information that has been given meaning
DBMS: Set of software applications combined w/ a database
create the database
data-processing system that performed record-keeping functions that mimicked existing manual procedure
data redundancy
between functional units
EE, jobs, promotion transactions, positions in the company
used to store info about entity
records
question that you ask about the data stored in a database
an object in a database that you can use to maintain, view, and print records in a "structured" manner
attribute of an entity which uniquely identifies a specific instance of the data
when a primary key from one table is stored as an attribute of another table
allows you to ask a question based on one or more tables in a database
performs an action on the table on which it is based
performs calculations on the values in a field and displays the results in a datasheet
they are both components of a relational database and can be customized to the needs of the user
a form is an object in a database; you can print data that appears in forms
special type of database that is optimized for reporting and analysis and is the raw material for management's decision support system
broad category of business applications and technologies for creating data warehouses and for analyzing and providing access to these specialized data to help enterprise users make better business decisions
patters in large data sets identified through here
knowledge can be turned into a database when an employee or manager knows what questions need to be answered to meet HR objectives and the data needed to answer those questions
employees:
a large amount of info has to move from the client computer across the network to the server to execute database transactions quickly
It is expandable to multiple Web servers and application servers to handle load balancing.
Row-level security supports hierarchical access—the greater the number of persons who report to an employee such as a manager or a supervisor, the more the quantity of data that becomes viewable. With row-level security within a particular page or screen, a specific user role retrieves only the data belonging to that user.
HRIS information is confidential. Any single employee should be able to view his/her information but not information of other employees
BOB solutions introduce additional complexity into the software architecture. This complexity adds IT expense in the form of new software licensing and/or programming charges.
Project Manager
hire a consultant
all-encompassing planning document that defines the scope of, and provides a basic "rulebook" to facilitate completion of a software implementation project which will help maintain the guidelines on how the project should function
Helps keep team focused on goal
it minimizes the likelihood of project creep. Project creep contributes to increased project costs and late project delivery.
occurs when decisions are made to implement additional functionality beyond what was defined in the project scope
may lead to huge cost overruns, a failure to complete the project on schedule, and then, in the rush to meet final deadlines, the delivery of a project that fails to meet the needs of the customers.