Implementing a Hris

PABITO, ANGELICA L                                                                                  December 7,2016

BSBA HRDM 4                                                                                        8:30-10:00 WF

Chapter 8

Case Study: Implementing a HRIS

This case analysis is for finding solutions about the installation of a new HRIS. This analysis will go over the installation process, problems and failures an entity may encounter when a new HRIS is employed and how the function of Human Resources can influence finances. By solving these problems, ABC Company will be ready to install a new HRIS. ABC Corporation (ABC) is a twelve billion dollar ($12B), publicly traded, global management consulting and technology company headquartered in the United States.  ABC has two business units, a public service sector that focuses on supporting federal, state and local government needs, and comprises eighty-nine percent (89%) of corporate revenues; and a commercial service sector that supports all other types of industry and accounts for the remaining eleven percent (11%) of corporate revenues.  The company has over 52,000 employees globally.  

ABC is the product of rulings by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the late 1990’s that forced large public accounting organizations to divest themselves of their consulting branches due to perceived conflicts of interest.  Examples of the divestitures include Arthur Anderson who spawned Accenture, or KPMG that spun off KPMG Consulting.  ABC spun off from its “Big 5” accounting parent in 1999, taking all of the parent company’s non-accounting related work with it.  By 2000, they were fully independent of their parent company and began to grow within their U.S. based operations.  During 2002, Arthur Anderson filed for bankruptcy protection and ABC decided to purchase assets in foreign countries, thereby creating an immediate global presence and also tripling their revenue base.  By virtue of this rapid growth, the existing IT infrastructure was not closely reviewed and has created redundancy as well as a question as the reliability and accessibility to critical global financial data.  In order to overcome these issues, “stove-piped” IT solutions that are unstable or not well integrated with a main system, as well as other solutions that require manual transference of critical data have been developed.  

1. In the company, there should be some kind of plan when employing a HRIS. There will always be hindrances, but a plan will guide the organization to pursue in the correct path. The method to ascertain that the system is working after its implementation is to identify the flaws of the old system and guarantee the new system attains the desires of the organization. Employees have no idea with regards to the functionality of the new system that is why they need to be trained to become aware and familiar with the utilization of the system to attain the goals of the organization. If the previous system caused havocs, the new system can guide the company to prevent various hindrances by utilization of the expertise attained form the previous system. By repairing the challenges of the previous system, employees can more significance to the company. Also, an additional impediment that would be considered is to ascertain that all employees received training that is required in order to move forward and guarantee that employees share the experience they attained to the new employees in order for the continuous development.