Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
8-31-1988
Degree Name
Master of Science in Management - (M.S.)
Department
Organizational and Social Sciences
First Advisor
Richard A. Coll
Abstract
In the past twenty years we have moved from an industrial society to an information society in which 60% (Personnel, 1985) of the work force is occupied with the creation, processing, and distribution of information. Because of this change in work distribute effective management of information is now and continue to be the key to employee productivity, competitive strength, and economic achievement. The business community is coming to realize that after people, information is its most important asset. At the same time, many aggressive firms are learning to use information technology and their people as strategic weapons to gain a competitive advantage within their markets.
This acknowledged potential is leading companies to commit time and resources to the effective management of information technology and to fully incorporate it into their overall strategic plans. It is changing the traditional relationship between employer and employee. It is focusing senior management's attention on human resource issues. Hand in hand with the emphasis on information comes the boom of computer storage, without which there would be no ways to handle and or organize the vast flow of information. The computer age has arrived and personnel managers must embrace it.
In this thesis the author will discuss the computerizing of the Human Resource Information System, henceforth to be referred to as (HRIS). Every personnel specialist knows that although each personnel departments performs many unique tasks the internal data file is almost the same for all. author uses INGRES (a data base management system) as the vehicle for building his example personnel management system. The principles demonstrated can be applied to any other database system, be it DBASE III, INFORMIX, PARDOX or whatever. The maximize size of such a system would be in the order of 5000 employees. Alone 5000 employees manipulation of above class of database would become cumbersome.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Dur-Chih, "Computerizing the human resource information system" (1988). Theses. 3244.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/3244
