Fictitious Business Description
Fictitious Business Description
HR Technology Case Scenario: Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers use information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop analyzes functions and determine the type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make a business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information. These systems will help Human resource managers by providing them with more data on strategic levels and allow for the function of more efficient and better information for decision making.
Fictitious Business Description Castle’s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the northern California area with approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part-time with approximately 40% of them full-time. The operations manager, Jay Morgan, also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location each week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring, and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spreadsheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr. Morgan approaches you, an HR Consultant, for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his
HR Technology Case Scenario: Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers use information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop analyzes functions and determine the type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make a business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information. These systems will help Human resource managers by providing them with more data on strategic levels and allow for the function of more efficient and better information for decision making.
Fictitious Business Description Castle’s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the northern California area with approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part-time with approximately 40% of them full-time. The operations manager, Jay Morgan, also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location each week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring, and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spreadsheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr. Morgan approaches you, an HR Consultant, for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his
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