Progress toward human resources information system

• Author: Elda Hoxhaj
• Position: University of Tirana
• Pages: 111-123

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Vol. 3 No. 1

January, 2019

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Progress toward human resources information system

PhD (C.) Elda Hoxhaj

University of Tirana

Abstract

Rapid changes in technology have a ected businesses in various ways and organizations must

look for means to manage their internal processes e ciently while preserving the integrity

of each practice. In human resources point of view, this involves many transactions a ecting

HR related issues. Organisations are investing large amounts of money and reserves on

HR so ware’s. Human Resource Management (HRM), in an organizational perspective, is

undergoing rapid change toward use of use Human Resources Information System (HRIS)

as a strategic tool for their management purposes. HRIS integrate HRM and Information

Technology.

This study aims to explore the extent of usage of a Human Resource Information System

(HRIS) in an organizations analysing and emphasising the advantages that derives from the

implementation of HRIS.

Keywords: HRIS, Human Resources, Information Technology.

Jel Code: O15, O32-3

Introduction

“An organization is as strong as the weakest person in it”1

Ever since the creation of mankind to date, in any epoch or socio-economic system, in

any culture or stage of social development, the most important source and the most

powerful and sustainable driving force of every development step, in every fi eld, has

resulted to be the human capital. Human resources in an economic entity, private

or public, are considered of critical importance for both management and owners,

or other related parties. Human resources constitute a key element in the success

and failure of an organization, making human capital of an absolute importance

and irreplaceable. In the creation of revenues and values, in planning and strategic

direction, in the success or not of each economic entity, it is clearly evidenced that

the main determinant factor is human resources, both in the form of intellectual and

physical capacities.

I. Development of human resources

2.1 HR development – historical approach

Work, a word as old as mankind itself, comes from that time when man survived only

1 This expression is processed as a derivative outcome of the quote “A chain is only as strong as its

weakest link” (idiom of unknown source)