Being a fortune 1000 enterprise and leader in the area of plastic injection molding, Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. has gained international praise on producing new and improved plastic designs with their “state of the art design capabilities.” (Virtual Organization) Riordan Manufacturing’s facilities are located in San Jose, CA; Albany, GA; Pontiac, MI; and Hangzhou, China. Some of their products include: plastic drink containers (GA), tailor-made plastic parts (MI), and plastic fan parts (China). All research and development is done at their corporate office in California. With these resources Riordan Manufacturing can implement most any needs a company may have.
The Human Resource department of Riordan Manufacturing has been running the HRIS system for 13 years in which it has organized the necessary information of employee demographics. This system is a low technology system that relies primarily on paper forms and filing systems. The HRIS system tracks the following, personal information, pay rate, personal tax exemptions, hire date, seniority date, organizational information (manager, department, etc.), and vacation hours. The system also sets forth policies to govern who handle different aspects of employee management and where certain data is stored. Any change to information is to be submitted on a special form by the employee's manager who then turns it over to a payroll clerk for entry to the system.
This system inherently has a few problems with it. First, you have the fact that none of the data is stored centrally in one location and therefore are not easily accessed by an outside department. For example an employees' file is kept with their respective manager preventing a human resources employee from accessing it easily if needed. Secondly, as prescribed previously if a manager wants to change an employees' data such as a phone number, he or she must fill out a special form and submit that for the data to be