Technology and Human Resource Management

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Technology and Human Resource Management

• PeopleSoft
• And
• Everything Else

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How Technology Lowers Costs and Improves
Efficiencies

• Reducing paperwork and streamlining workflow
• Automating redundant HR tasks
• Empowering employees to embrace a self-service HR
  delivery system
• Keeping the companys workforce fully informed
  about all important compliance issues and
  corporate events

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How Technology Lowers Costs and Improves
Efficiencies

• Speeding up the response time of HR systems
• Ensuring that more informed decisions are made
• Improving time management
• Offering a flexible model of HR that meets the
  changing needs of an increasingly diverse and
  global workforce

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HR Management Trends

• Traditional HR
• 1. Paper-intensive job.
• 2. People skills dominate.
• 3. Data filing and information dissemination are
  key functions.
• 4. The HR department is functionally oriented.

• Technology-Assisted HR
• 1. Paperless office environment
• 2. Information management and technology mastery
  skills are essential
• 3. Strategic HR management skills and
  systems-level thinking are critical
• 4. The virtual HR staff assume a more
  consultative/advisory role

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HR Management Trends

• Traditional HR
• 5. Less scientific sources of personnel
  information are relied on (e.g., traditional
  interviews).
• 6. HR professionals react to new information
  technologies (IT) recommended by their IT
  departments

• Technology-Assisted HR
• 5. More scientific sources of HR information are
  used (e.g., computer-based personnel testing
• 6. Technology-savvy HR professionals proactively
  request cutting-edge technologies from their IT
  group

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Leading Web-based HR Technologies

• Job postings and recruitment (70)
• Corporate communications (57)
• Benefits information and enrollment (32)
• On-line training (24)
• Access to profit sharing, savings and 401(k)
  (18)
• On-line performance appraisal (6)
• Other web-based HR applications (e.g.,
  collaboration, interviewing systems) (19)

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