HRIS – Complete Course on Human Resources Information System

We will start this module with a brief introduction about HRIS. Moving ahead you will learn what the uses of HRIS are and how Human Resource utilizes HRIS to benefit the employees. Also, you will learn the objective, requirement of HRIS in an organization and how the employees can use it in their welfare. You need to watch 47 videos in total to cover this module.

Human Resource Management is an umbrella term used for the development and management of people in an organization. HRM as a process is very important for an organization, without which it will be a tedious task to run an organization.

HRIS is fast evolving and the application of information technology has revolutionized the way in which organizations operate. The field of HRIS has been continuously evolving. Human resource information system is a customized software solution designed for helping the organizations to automate and manage their human resource, payroll, management and accounting activities. Human resources information system affects the performance of the people and key organizational strategies by automating key human resource processes like recruitment, training, manpower planning, performance appraisal and job analysis and design.

HRM also helps the employees to live up to their full potential and perform their best and hence benefit the organization. Another function of human resources is to maintain a cordial relation between various levels of employees.

Human resource information system facilitates applicant tracking, interviewing and confirmation process. Apart from this, the workforce administration strategies can be streamlined and it can generate various cost advantages to the organizations by streamlining various functional operations.

Besides recruitment, there are wide areas of work for HR to focus on such as compensation and benefits, training and learning, labour and employee relations, organization development and so on. Due to so many areas to focus on for human resource one need to have expertise in either one or more areas.

Human resource management system or human resource package can be used in training processes, tracking employee performance and participation, payroll management and accounting benefits and leaves. In a nutshell, human resources management system offers distinctive advantages to the organization by automating various functions of human resource management, thereby reducing the workload of the human resource department and increasing the efficiency of the department by standardizing key human resource processes.

Human Resource professionals need to have a strategic and comprehensive approach to their work. In this era of digitalization, an HR professional has to have traditional as well as an international approach towards managing people as well as workplace culture and environment.