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Information is vital to the survival and growth of the firm. The human resource function is most critical, must be performed with conjunction with the strategic purposes of the firm and is primarily responsible for integrating all parts of the organization through information systems. When reference is made to the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) in today's environment of high tech wizardry, it is often thought as a business tool that allows for standardization in the gathering of information about and for a company's employees. Although this was the original purpose of HRIS, many additional uses are beginning to emerge. Most of the studies made on HRIS are descriptive, non-specific and generic in nature and far from empirical and pragmatic bases, while the HRIS scenario in India has largely remained unexplored. The available research on the subject are largely surveys limited to the extent and use of HRIS in large and small organizations, but no in-depth study has so far been attempted on a single large organization. It is in this backdrop that the present study has been undertaken to fill in this vital gap in the existing research. This paper tries to examine the status of HRIS of a large organization like National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO).
INTRODUCTION
The success of a business enterprise in a complex and changing depends to a very large extent on efficient management of its Resource (HR). To survive and to successful, a firm has to retain 'competitive advantage' over its rivals, acquiring, maintaining, and developing a competent HR. Successful Resource Management requires mastery of a tremendous amount of well-organized information. Information can be defined as tangible or intangible entity, which serves to reduce uncertainty about some future state or event. Acquiring and analyzing information and taking action based on their interpretation of information is the common function of all organizations. Every organization needs to process information, whether it manufactures a product or provide a service.
An information system is a set of organized procedure which when executed, provides information to support decision-making. An mformation system is generally required to communicate effectively with the environment. It is only recently the formal Human Resource Information System (HRIS) using Information Technology (IT) is being implemented. An HRIS is a systematic...