Global Information Systems and Human Resource Management

Author(s):  
Fred Niederman

A socio-technical approach to information systems requires recognition of the inextricable link between information technologies and humans as designers and users. This essay explores five areas in which information technology and human computer designers/users interact within the context of global organizations. These five areas are: using information technology to support the human resource strategy of global organizations, using information technology to support the generation and distribution of organizational learning, using human resource management techniques and programs to support the work of information systems professionals, using human resource management techniques and programs to support the work of global “end-users” or knowledge workers, and, finally, national and regional policies to support technical and human resource infrastructures.

Author(s):  
Alvydas Baležentis ◽  
Gintarė Paražinskaitė

Public welfare, power, and knowledge is determined by ability to organize society, and make benefit from new technology solutions, mainly – digital communication. Therefore, there is a demand for holistic analysis of human resource management and information technology, to know the needs of users, possibilities of information technology and results of their application. The goal of this study – to research application of information technologies in the LR Ministries‘ Personnel Management Departments. The study was conducted using methods of scientific literature analysis and experts evaluation. The study provides an overview of the evaluations of experts from thirteen LR ministries. According to the latter was discovered demand for further technologization of human resource management activities. But the quality is rather guaranteed by matching the needs, reduction of duplication of functions and activities, ease of use, and similar issues. That is mainly determined by balance of restraining and driving forces, increased number of the latter.


2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Soeherman

Information systems and information technology have become a fundamental component of successful business and organization. That's the same important thing as studying marketing, human resource management, operation management, accounting, and the other business components. That's why most managers, entrepreneur, and other business professional have to understand of information system, as it is understand the other business components. This article describes the concept of normalization as one of the methods of building database. This method is recognized as the key success of database's function within companies.


Author(s):  
María José Crisóstomo-Acevedo ◽  
José Aurelio Medina-Garrido

Telemedicine requires a new type of worker: the health care teleworker. Nevertheless, physicians remain wary of adopting telemedicine. This work examines the sources of the resistance to incorporating telemedicine. We adopt a focus centering on the difficulties that human factors have in accepting the practice of telemedicine. Employees’ resistance to change comes mainly from the inertia that perpetuates traditional routines and methods of working. The success of telemedicine projects will be determined by these human factors as well as by an adequate use of information technology and an appropriate organizational management. This work also offers some practical implications in human resource management for managers of telemedicine projects to consider.


Author(s):  
Martin Burgard ◽  
Franca Piazza

The increased use of information technology leads to the generation of huge amounts of data which have to be stored and analyzed by appropriate systems. Data warehouse systems allow the storage of these data in a special multidimensional data base. Based on a data warehouse, business intelligence systems provide different analysis methods such as online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining to analyze these data. Although these systems are already widely used and the usage is still growing, their application in the area of electronic human resource management (e-HRM) is rather scarce. Therefore, the objective of this article is to depict the components and functionality of these systems and to illustrate the application possibilities and benefits of these systems by selected application examples in the context of e-HRM.


Author(s):  
Maryam Kalhori ◽  
Mohammad Javad Kargar

With the extension of information technology, human resource management has experienced fundamental changes. One of the most important issues in human resource management is performance evaluation. Unlike number of studies in employee performance evaluation, there is a lack for systematic and quantitative approaches. Issues such as incomplete information, subjective and qualitative metrics, and also the difficulty of evaluating the performance are the main problems of this field. Hence, the current study exploits the capabilities of information systems and presents an approach for quantitative and automatic evaluation of employee performance in office automation systems. The results reveal the automatic employee performance evaluation system is a discrete dimension for employee performance evaluation systems.


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