Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)

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What is the main purpose of HRIS?

  • To track inventory levels
  • To monitor employee attendance
  • To collect and analyze data for decision-making in human resource development (correct)
  • To assess customer satisfaction

What are the inputs of HRIS?

  • Inventory lists and supplier details
  • Sales data and customer feedback
  • Information relating to employees, their abilities, qualifications, potentialities, creative instincts, age, pay scales, and various jobs (correct)
  • Production schedules and quality control reports

What is a major reason for the emphasis on manpower planning?

  • Increase in the number of retirees
  • Acute shortage of a variety of skills despite a rise in educated unemployment (correct)
  • Rise in job security
  • Decrease in the number of educated unemployed

How has technological change impacted job contents and contexts?

<p>Extensively and rapidly with profound effects on job contents and contexts (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does HRIS help managers with?

<p>Decision-making in promotion, wage fixing, recruitment, and training (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is there a need for more effective recruitment and retaining people?

<p>Acute shortage of a variety of skills despite a rise in educated unemployment (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary purpose of HRIS?

<p>To analyze data related to human resources (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does HRIS support managers in decision-making?

<p>By providing information on employee abilities and qualifications (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the inputs of HRIS?

<p>Employee abilities, qualifications, and age (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is there a present emphasis on manpower planning?

<p>Because of a shortage of skilled workers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What effect has technological change had on job contents and contexts?

<p>Significant changes in job roles and responsibilities (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why are changes in production technologies, marketing methods, and management techniques important for HR planning?

<p>To anticipate problems related to redundancies and retraining (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the reasons cited for the need to plan human resource needs intensively and systematically?

<p>Organisational Change (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor has implications for human resource planning due to the changing profile of the workforce?

<p>Demographic Changes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has stimulated organizations to become involved in systematic human resource planning?

<p>Skill Shortages (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What makes it difficult to reduce the size of an organization quickly and cheaply?

<p>Legislative Controls (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What emphasizes planning and adopting newer ways of handling personnel records due to the ongoing revolution in information technology?

<p>Systems Concept (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What contributes to the need for a longer lead time for the selection process and for training and development of employees?

<p>Lead Time (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor raises contradictory pressures on enterprise management in areas such as internal recruitment and promotions?

<p>Impact of Pressure Groups (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has implications for human resource planning in terms of age, sex, literacy, technical inputs, and social background?

<p>Demographic Changes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What contributes to the need for intensive and systematic human resource planning?

<p>Organisational change and skill shortages (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has made it difficult to reduce the size of an organization quickly and cheaply?

<p>Legislative controls (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has stimulated organizations to become involved in systematic human resource planning?

<p>Demographic changes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What emphasizes the need for planning and adopting newer ways of handling personnel records?

<p>Systems concept (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has affected human resource requirements due to the nature and pace of changes in organizational environment, activities, and structures?

<p>Organisational change (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What raises contradictory pressures on enterprise management in areas such as internal recruitment and promotions?

<p>Impact of pressure groups (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is necessary for the selection process and for training and development of employees to handle new knowledge and skills successfully?

<p>Lead time (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has implications for human resource planning due to the changing profile of the workforce in terms of age, sex, literacy, and social background?

<p>Demographic changes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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