Our electronic library

Abstract

Equitable Bancorporation, a multi bank holding company, has a fully computerized human resource information system (HRIS) which is barely a year old. The system is paying for itself, at a cost of about 20 dollars per employee per year. The HRIS makes it possible to rapidly gather, store, update, retrieve, and display an endless variety of data on people and their jobs. The system ingests information via machine readable documents such as employee profiles and position profiles. It produces standard and special purpose reports for use by the personnel department and line management in problem solving. The corporation can process the data in countless ways to learn what is happening to the work force, enabling it to run the organization more effectively on a day to day basis. The HRIS has substantial potential as a long range planning tool. This enables a company to respond quickly and effectively to changes in its strategic objectives with corresponding changes in human resource management.

Citation

(1977), "Our electronic library", Planning Review, Vol. 5 No. 6, pp. 16-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053821