Human Resource Information System

What is Human Resource Information System? I really got no idea about Human Resource Information System before. My curiosity made me more interested when first attending the class. What actually is it? After I attended first and second lectures, just I had some ideas about HRIS. From my understanding, HRIS is using computer based system in human resource function. The HR function includes transactional, traditional and transformational activities (Wright, McMahan, Snell, & Gerhart, 1998). In other word, an organization is using information system to store the information and data for each employee. Besides that, the information system also useful in daily transactions such as payroll, leave and absence recording, employees’ performance and other human resource function. Human Resource Information System is really useful and familiar in every organization especially in this technology era. Human Resource Information System can reduce the time that need on transactional activities and improve daily transaction become more efficiently (Wright et al.,1998). The information and data will provide the facts and evidence when the organization faced the problems in future. Besides that, HRIS gives the chance for HR to play a more strategic role to generate metrics which can be used to support strategic decision making (Hendrickson, 2003; Lawler et al., 2004; Lengnick-Hall et al., 2003). It also provides suitable and sufficient information to organization in making decision. It is really useful in administration and management of an organization. In this chapter, I also know the history of HRIS. The process to improve the HRIS since before is made me more understand on HRIS. This is what I had learned in my first and second lectures. I hope I do not have wrong perception in HRIS. There is many other HRIS knowledge I need to learn in future. Perhaps I will get more interest in HRIS.