Chapter II
Review of Related Literature Along with the upsurge of computerized management information systems (MIS) in industrialized countries’ enterprises in the 1980s, HR functions increasingly started to deploy human resource information systems in their daily work. HRIS were primarily seen as MIS 54 sub functions within HR areas intended to support the “planning, administration, decisionmaking, and control activities of human resource management. During the 1990s, along with the adoption of more complex HR practices focused on a company’s overall performance goal, HRIS correspondingly evolved into more sophisticated information expert systems featuring analytical tools to support decision-making in managing human capital (Ostermann, Staudinger & Staudinger, 2009).
Information technology in the past decade drastically changed the human resources function. Providing support for mainly administrative activities such as payroll and attendance management in the beginning, information technology today enhances many of the recruitment function’s sub processes such as long and short-term candidate attraction, the generation, pre-screening, and processing of applications or the contracting and on boarding of new hires. Online job advertisements on corporate web sites and internet job boards, online CV databases, different forms of electronic applications, applicant management systems, corporate skill databases, and IS supported workflows for the contracting phase are only few examples of the various ways by which information systems today support recruitment processes (Keim & Weitzel, 2009).
In HR planning process it is easier to follow workforce gaps, the quantity and quality of the labour force and to plan future workforce requirements with the help of HR knowledge systems (Dessler, 2005).
In HR planning process it is easier to follow workforce