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Managing a company's human resource function is a demanding responsibility. The human resource department must administer internal company policies and benefit programs while insuring compliance with all federal and state mandated programs such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"The role of the HR department is to support a company's business plan and strategy. I have always maintained that the HR function should be measured as a profit center, not in the traditional sense of selling a product or a service but rather, by measuring HR's contribution to the bottom line--and that's measurable," says Burt Bartzoff a certified personnel consultant with TFS Human Resource Solutions Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm.
Thanks to the advent of Human Resource Information Systems, administration of the HR function has been simplified. HRIS programs which capture employee data and provide sophisticated analysis of payroll information along with reports mandated by government policy. Abra 2000, a modestly-priced Human Resource Information System, from Abra Cadabra Software, St. Petersburg, Fla., is well-designed, comprehensive and easy.
Supporting all areas of HR management and information tracking, the program generates over 100 standard reports and comes with an integrated report writer and letter writer.
ABRA 2000's reference manual is well-written. The manual carefully walks the new user through software installation, company setup and code table setup. Code tables are look-up tables used during data entry to expedite data input and assure accuracy.
The Benefit Plans table, is an example of a well-designed code table.
Employing a strong feature set the Benefit...