As the very nature of business has evolved over the past couple of decades, the task of managing a company’s human resources has become increasingly intricate. It is the duty of HR to organize employee information, including background, education, skills, and job history. Historically, larger organizations have struggled to efficiently manage their massive amounts of HR data without the use of computers. A Human Resource Information System, or HRIS, is a type of software application explicitly designed to handle matters of employment and personnel. In the past, HRIS were run only on vast, centralized mainframe computers. Now, however, technology has matured to allow these applications to be run easily from smaller computer systems, making them accessible to all. In order to understand the importance of having a company HRIS, consider a few of their common components.
Payroll. The payroll system, of course, functions to ensure that each employee is delivered the correct pay based on salary and work. The HRIS payroll system collects data on employee work hours and absences, records overtime, and, depending on the complexity of the software, can calculate taxes and deductions in order to generate and deposit various employee paychecks, government checks, and reports. The module must observe federal, state, and city tax regulations exactly, and navigate technical documents and union contracts. Data flowing out of the payroll system should filter back into financial management systems in order to aid executives in making financial decisions.
Benefits. The benefits administration module allows a company to track employee engagement in a variety of benefits programs, including life and health insurance, retirement pensions, stock purchases, and profit sharing. Benefits are an extremely valuable component of worker compensation packages. Competent HRIS benefit modules will furnish elaborate reports which will assist the company in creating an attractive yet affordable benefits package for its employees.
Recruiting. Recruiting software is an essential component of every HRIS. When the economy is good, an organization must endeavor to recruit new employees; and even if not presently hiring, it is to the advantage of the company to still accumulate resumes of qualified candidates so that, when the need arises, positions can be swiftly filled. Nowadays, a majority of employee recruiting is being done online. Recruiting software such as Talent Management Systems, or Applicant Tracking Systems, can evaluate a company’s existing personnel usage and needs, target both internal and external qualified applicants, and execute the actual process of recruitment. Such organized systems are also extremely useful in ensuring that the organization is obeying all Equal Opportunity Employment laws.
The three points mentioned above are by no means the full complement of useful Human Resource functions. Other processes exist which assess employee production, catalogue individual qualifications, and track business training exploits, to name only a handful. Organizations interested in delving further into HRIS have innumerable options before them, not only in terms of software vendors, but also the features offered by the individual software packages. HRIS is highly customizable, and, if put to the right tasks, it can do wonders for your business.
By: Clay C. Scroggin
Archive for December, 2009
An Overview of Human Resource Information Software
December 24th, 2009Gap Wireless to Exhibit Its Wireless Technology Solutions at the 2008 Wireless & Mobile Expo and Conference
December 24th, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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May 15, 2008 – Toronto, Canada – GAP WIRELESS will exhibit its wireless technology solutions at the upcoming 2008 Wireless & Mobile Expo and Conference, scheduled on July 15 & 16, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada.
GAP WIRELESS has partnered with the best of breed manufacturers in the PCS/Cellular Infrastructure, Coverage Enhancement, In-Building, and Broadband Wireless Access space to allow us to focus on and support our key customers in the Wireless Service Provider, Government, Enterprise, Education, and Public Safety sectors with the most up to date solutions for wireless voice, data, and video transport and access solutions. GAP WIRELESS serves both public and private sector clients with Wireless Technology solutions and onsite professionals in support of these main disciplines: PCS/Cellular Infrastructure, Wireless Coverage Enhancement, Last Mile Connectivity, Back Haul, Mesh Networks, and Wi-Fi.
The Wireless Mobile Expo and Conference will bring into light the latest products and solutions that brought appreciable revolution in the worlds approach to the technology in the Wireless and Mobile service industry, such as Enterprise Wireless Networking, Wi-Fi, Mobile Convergence, Bluetooth, WiMax, Wireless Broadband, Mobile Devices, Wireless Security, Mobile Computing, VoIP and much more.
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Congress Considers Grants for Technology Solutions to Stop Illegal Downloading or P2p Distribution of Intellectual Property on Campus
December 24th, 2009Congress is considering legislation that would require colleges receiving federal aid to educate students and faculty about illegal file-sharing on campus and develop a plan to offer “technology-based deterrents” to illegal downloading.
The provisions are part of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, introduced in the House by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Texas, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
The legislation would require colleges and universities participating in any Title IV program to inform students and employees on certain “policies and procedures related to the illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted materials,” and to “develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity.”
The legislation makes available competitive grants to support “Campus Based Digital Theft Prevention Solutions.” SafeMedia CEO & Chairman Safwat Fahmy applauded Miller and Hinojosa for sponsoring the legislation.
“This vision, intent and wording of the bill shows that Congress understands the complex issues of illegal file sharing and identity theft associated with contaminated P2P networks on U.S. campuses,” said Fahmy. “The proposed measure also recognizes that technology is available today to stop contaminated P2P, while allowing the legitimate ones, which are critical educational tools to operate without interruption.” “
“SafeMedia products available now stop contaminated P2P networks and offer immediate alternative to illegal downloading. SafeMedia unique lock and key system creates a safe and secure environment to distribute copyrighted material can be used by Universities as an alternative to illegal downloading, .” said Fahmy.
“SafeMedia has the only products available today that can end all illegal file sharing and identity theft associated with encrypted or non-encrypted contaminated P2P,” he said.
Contaminated P2P networks are known to contain illegal copyrighted files, classified business information, national security data and personal identification documents. SafeMedia’s P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD™) was developed to create a secure environment for unencumbered, economical use of legitimate P2P and Bit Torrent networks on campus.
The Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities – a non-profit organization that promotes use of information technology in higher education – wrote to Miller’s committee expressing concerns that no technology exists that can stop illegal file-sharing, an assertion that Fahmy strongly disputes.
“SafeMedia’s P2PD is available today and was designed specifically to address the complex issues of P2P networks on college campuses,” he said. “We challenge any college in America to test our solution and see if it doesn’t solve the problem of eliminating illegal file sharing, creating a safe environment for the legitimate use of P2P and Bit Torrent networks and provide a safe, secure and economical digital download solution.”
Dan Glickman, chairman & CEO of the Motion Pictures Alliance of America, said intellectual property theft costs more than 140,000 U.S. jobs each year. Glickman said almost half the U.S. motion picture industry’s domestic losses are attributed to illegal file-sharing over campus P2P networks.
“We are pleased to see that Congress is taking this step to help keep our economy strong by protecting copyrighted material on college campuses,” said Glickman.
About SafeMedia Corporation
SafeMedia Corporation, based in Boca Raton, Fl, is a global developer of P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD™) that stops illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. SafeMedia’s technologies provide individual users, businesses, educational institutions, and public/private organizations with an immediate, effective way to totally safeguard their network infrastructure from every risks associated with illegal file sharing of copyrighted files, ensures 24/7/365 compliance with all federal and state digital copyright laws and eliminates the risk of legal prosecution. By preventing upload participation, these networks become incapable of growing and lose their reason to exist. The P2PD™ technology is deployed at end-user sites, either integrated into network devices installed in user locations such as edge routers/modems or subnet edge routers and concentrators, or as an independent network technology (Clouseau®).
[Editors: To view the full published report visit The Register at: (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/bittorrent_encryption_explosion/), or whitepapers and studies on P2P or SafeMedia technology. For more about SafeMedia visit: www.SafeMedia.com.
By: George S. Mc Quade III
