Human Resource Software
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Functionality Modules in Human Resource Software
Description
- Human Resource Software is an enterprise system for managing company's human resources information, including personnel data, time attendance, payroll, welfare and benefit, career, succession planning, training, event management and other related personnel information.
- This system usually adopting some government regulation related to employment issues which is then applied to the system according to the local government where the system is implemented. This kind of specific local issue sometime encountering several difficulties during the development as well as the implementation of the system. A well designed HR system should give configuration tools to make the government issues can be adopted by the system.
- Following are some functionalities which should exist in HR system:
Human Resource System Functionality Modules
- Personnel Administration
- Recruitment Management
- Personnel Information Management
- Welfare and Benefit Management
- Time Management
- Payroll Administration
- Personnel Development
- Qualification and Requirement
- Appraisal System
- Development Planning
- Career Planning
- Succession Planning
- Training and Event Management
- Travel Management
Recruitment Management
- Supports decision maker selecting personnel who met their enterprise requirement. Starting with workforce requirement planning, opening a vacancy, publishing into many kind of advertisement, applicant screening and selection, hire suitable applicants and placing them to the suitable job or position.
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Personnel Information Management
- Comprehensively manage employee’s information, such as personal data, organization assignment, payroll data, employee time profile, education background, work experiences, and development data. Easily manage company’s organization structure using hierarchical model, assign additional positions or jobs and presenting employee’s organization assignment history.
Welfare Benefit Management
- Providing capabilities and flexibilities to effectively manage benefit programs such as medical claim, loan and ownership programs. Claim limit can be controlled during transaction by applying general or individual quota to every claim proposed by employee.
Time Management
- Covering administration and evaluation of employee’s work hours. Manage employee’s work time by defining employee work groups and establishing their shift or work schedule based on location and organization level. Easily define many kind of employee’s absence such as permission, leave, and so on. Overtime schedule can be arranged easily and can be monitored across to the related payment data.
Payroll Administration
- Automating the pay process by gathering data on employee time and attendance, calculating various deductions and taxes, generating periodic pay cheques and employee tax reports. Perform automatic deposit calculation or writing cheque manually based on human resource and time management data. Set up accounts payable transactions based on employee’s deductions then send accounting information to the general ledger for posting subsequent pay cycle.
Personnel Development
- Defining Multi Competencies Model based on the enterprise criteria, such as qualifications, competencies, potentials, preferences, or other criteria according to the enterprise concern. Using this model, evaluation to employee placement can be made easily, ensuring appropriate employee profile match with their current job or position, considering next employee’s career or make decision to place them to another job or position which is more suitable.
Training and Event Management
- Planning and managing business events for the enterprise, such as training, courses, seminary, presentation, workshop, meeting, and so on. Arranging every event in a catalog of business event complete with its schedule, capacity, objective, and another component related. Additionally, using appraisal component in this module, evaluation and appraisal to the events can be made as well. Appraisers could be organizer or attendees, internal or external person who monitoring the event. It also can define much kind of resources such as instructors, rooms, equipments, and course supported materials according to the business event planning.
Travel Management
- Providing preparation and approval of travel documents, authorization of travel advances computation, preparation and approval of travel vouchers, and the processing of information for payment of the travel vouchers and claims to payroll accounting.
About the Contributor
- This article is provided by Mark Ipoeng an IT consultant in Human Resources Area, and one of the founder of WIDYATECH.com, a company which provide comprehensive Human Resources Software
- see detail on his site...