The Human Resources Function Facilitates the Flow of the Personnel Resource

Hiring

Education And

trainingRecruiting Termination

Benefitadministration

Potentialemployees

Employees RetiredEmployees

The firm

Data management

HRISdatabase

A Model of a Human Resources Information System

Accountinginformation

system

HumanResourcesresearch

subsystem

HumanResourcesIntelligencesubsystem

Work forcePlanning

subsystem

Recruitingsubsystem

Work forceManagementsubsystem

Compensationsubsystem

EnvironmentalReportingsubsystem

Benefitssubsystem

Environmentalsources

Internalsources

Output subsystems

Data Information

Users

Input subsystems

Possible HRIS Data Locations

342

174

5232

Firm’s central computer

HRcomputer

Operatingdivision computer

Outsideservice center

Users of HRIS Output

Other HRManagers

(4.33)

1Not at all

3Monthly

4Weekly

5Daily

2Occasionally

HRDirector

(3.79)

NonHRManagers

(3.09)Executives

(2.78)

Basic Forms of HRIS Output

94.5

84.4

34.7

8.7

Periodicreports

Databasequeries

Mathematicalmodels

Expertsystems

Percentageof firms

reportingOutputtypes

Executive Perception of HRIS Value

9

185

242

4

HRIS haslittle value

HRIS isvalued lessthan othersystems

HRIS is valued higher

than othersystems

HRIS is themost highly

valued

2531

Topmanagementis unaware

of HRIS

HRIS isvalued on a

par withother systems