Vaughn Felix
8/6/2013
Executive Summary
The objective of this essay is to show that Information Communications Technology (ICT) plays a key role in supporting Human Resource Management. This paper examines how ICTs can enhance Human Resources Development
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Departments of the MNRE (Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment) 4
3. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 5
4. INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICTs) 6
4.0 ICT Facilitates effective decision making and solving problems 7
4.1 ICT incorporates automation 7
4.2 ICT improves efficiency and effectiveness 8
Propose diagram in Figure 1: indicate how Coordination among Agencies and the Ministry is possible with adoption of ICT in the Ministry. 9
5. How ICT can help in employee empowerment in MNRE 10
6. Recommendations to the MNRE 11
7. Conclusion 12
References 14
Introduction
ICTs can be viewed as a collective term for a wide range of software, hardware, telecommunications and information management techniques, applications and devices, and are used to create, produce, analyze, process, package, distribute, receive, retrieve, store and transform information (Porter and Millar, 1985; Brady et al., 2002).
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Human Resource Management can be enhanced through Information Communication & Technology. Research has shown that when companies adopt ICT, it provided many positive benefits to the organization, such as improvement in communication, sharing of information, linking different arms of an organization and reduces the burden place on the Human Resources Department
Businesses today are face with significant challenges, and as society develop, technology will develop. We live in an information age, no longer personnel data are store manually, but are inventories in software system and cloud
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