Riordan Human Resources
Learning Team B
University of Phoenix BSA 502
May 22 2009
Riordan Human Resources Riordan Manufacturing, Inc is an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding and employs 550 individuals throughout its plants in the USA and China. Its products include plastic beverage containers produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at its facilities in Hangzhou, China. The company 's research and development is done at the corporate headquarters in San Jose. The success of the company speaks for itself with projected annual earnings of $46 million (Apollo, 2004). …show more content…
The managers are also responsible for filing important documents like leave of absences, pay, employee ranking or ADA accommodations. Employee compensation is kept by and outside vendor where the information is kept on that vendor files/records. However, a compensation manager does keep an Excel file of “results of job analyses, salary surveys and individual compensation decisions” (Apollo Group, 2007). Company relations specialists are responsible for keeping track of “information about complaints, grievances, harassment complaints, etc. in locked files in their offices” (Apollo Group, 2007). There is a greater margin for errors due to the fact that all vital information is scattered and kept by different individual and even outside vendors. And in doing so it allows for more errors, loss of data and no central location to keep all vital employee information. Another concern is the security levels implemented if any to keep such information private and accessible only by need to know only …show more content…
PeopleSoft would allow for a more organized filing and tracking of employee information such as pay scale, seniority, hire dates, sick or vacation time and any other pertinent information. PeopleSoft allows information entered into the database to be processed on multiple levels, and allows all administrative functions of an organization to “operate seamlessly, so that all Management, Human Resources, Admissions, Finance and Records all interconnect” (University of Baltimore 2009). Simply put Riordan can greatly benefit at all levels from implementing this new way of tracking employee information throughout its operating organizations and cut cost if they were to deploy PeopleSoft. This new method will seamlessly combine all of the organizations into one easy to use, up to date, scalable way of tracking employee records into one user friendly method that upper management can easily use and understand. PeopleSoft is the affordable software that will bring a more robust way of tracking, updating and projecting software that will carry Riordan into the future with a great