Determining HRIS Needs

Determining HRIS Needs Name Professor Course Date Determining HRIS Needs Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) have overtime become vital tools for many businesses. Even the smallest units of businesses need to realize and acknowledge the benefits of using HRIS in becoming more efficient. Many medium size businesses have been running the same human resource system for so many years, and it becomes important to replace these systems. In replacing HRIS, there are many considerations that should be minded such as technological advancements and policy changes. Enterprise technology is changing very immensely and should be looked into with a great concern. Enterprise technology shapes the progress of a business entity and determines how intensive and often an entity should redesign their HRIS. Businesses are also guided by government policies. Policies affecting on formation and running of businesses cannot be assumed under any case in the process of upgrading or replacing a HRIS CITATION Rad10 \l 1033 (Radif, Fredrick, & manchester, 2010). Proper scrutiny is necessary to ensure the replaced or upgraded HRIS is in line with the prevailing and any possible changes in technology. Technological changes can make an HRIS obsolete, it is, therefore, very important to ensure HRIS is flexible and adaptable. Government policies affect how an entity is run and the range of activities it can carry out. When a need arises to replace or upgrade human resource information system, data must be collected to determine the feasibility of the said need. Data collection is necessary to document and determine the real need for an upgrade or replacement of the existing system. The collected data should be accurate and precise to help identify any loopholes. Interviews and focus groups are among the commonly used methods of data collection. These two methods come with some limitations. The two primary data collection methods produce large volumes of data. The large volumes of data have to be scrutinized to arrive at the most relevant data concerning the intended analysis. This becomes another limitation as it is rather challenging to collect only the relevant data in the initial phase of the process. How do you limit interviewees to respond precisely to what you want? Large volumes of data collected raise the cost and of the analysis and make it more time consuming. To avoid collecting too much overwhelming data, questions used in the approach should be precise and not too much outside the said limits. Experts who are able to derive relevant information should collect data CITATION Kin10 \l 1033 (King & Christine, 2010).Another challenge of using interviews and focus groups is that there occurs a problem of how to design the survey. Questions for the approach must be simple but prec...