Human Resource Information Systems
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Course Introduction
Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) explores the integration of information technology with human resource management processes. This course examines the development, implementation, and management of HRIS, emphasizing how these systems support HR functions such as recruitment, training, payroll, benefits administration, performance management, and compliance. Students will analyze various HRIS platforms, assess data security and privacy issues, and investigate trends like self-service portals and analytics. Case studies and hands-on projects provide practical experience in leveraging HRIS to enhance decision-making, operational efficiency, and strategic planning within organizations.
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Human Resource Information Systems 4th Edition by Michael J. Kavanagh
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Chapter 1: A Brief History and Overview of Technology in HR
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Q1) What is the desired effect of the implementation of an HRIS on the three types of HR activities?
Answer: One of the major advantages of the design,development,and implementation of an HRIS is to reduce the amount of time the HR staff have to spend on transactional activities,allowing the staff to spend more time on traditional and transformational activities.
Q2) The activities during the pre-World War II era included all the following EXCEPT for this:
A) record keeping of employee information
B) the growth of trade unions
C) scientific management was the prevailing philosophy
D) very few government influences in employment relations
Answer: B
Q3) The recruitment and training functions of an HR department are traditional activities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Database Concepts and Applications in HRIS
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Q1) What are decision support systems,and what role do they play?
Answer: Decision support systems are software applications that use databases,primarily data warehouses,to assist senior managers and business professionals in making business decisions.
Q2) When a(n)______ from one table is stored as an attribute of another table,that attribute is called a(n)______.
A) primary key; foreign key
B) object; entity
C) foreign key; primary key
D) entity; attribution
Answer: A
Q3) One of the benefits of a relational database system is that
A) end users who generally had limited programming experience can still utilize the query functionality
B) organizations can easily implement them
C) they are easy to maintain
D) they are a strategic HRM resource
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Systems Considerations in the Design of an
HRIS: Planning for Implementations
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Q1) To facilitate decision making on complex issues,the manager usually relies on the ______ to complete some type of analysis before making a decision.
A) systems analyst
B) statistical software
C) program evaluator
D) analyst or power user
Answer: D
Q2) The technical expert is perhaps the most demanding user of the HRIS.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The ______ must take what the technical staff provides and interpret that into language HR users understand so as to indicate how processes and activities might change.
A) manager
B) HRIS expert
C) external consultant
D) analyst or power user
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Systems Development Life Cycle and HRIS
Needs Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a stage of the needs analysis process?
A) observation
B) implementation
C) evaluation
D) reporting
Q2) The ongoing maintenance of a new HRIS is NOT included within an SDLC project.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Data collection methods for the needs analysis include ______.
A) interviews
B) surveys and online tools
C) organizational archives
D) all of these
Q4) Why are person-to-person interviews more effective than handing out questionnaires?
Q5) What are a few different ways to conduct a needs analysis interview?
Q6) The needs analysis is synonymous with business requirements definition. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: System Design and Acquisition
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Q1) In a DFD,processes are the mechanism through which data are transformed,manipulated,created,and so on into output such as a report,a decision,and the like.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Economic feasibility is a feasibility assessment tool that focuses on the financial and economic benefits and costs that a new system would bring to the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is meant by a data view of a system?
Q4) After receiving the vendor responses,you have the opportunity to evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each vendor.Which of the following would you consider in your assessment of the software options?
A) functionality
B) IT architecture and IT integration
C) price
D) all of these
Q5) Explain what is meant by the process perspective.
Q6) Explain what is meant by the data perspective.
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Chapter 6: Change Management and Implementation
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Q1) Forces for change are ______.
A) internal only
B) external only
C) internal and external
D) global
Q2) Running an old system in parallel with a new system has the disadvantage of A) being a more costly alternative
B) having a longer implementation timeline
C) allowing employees to use the old system instead of moving to the new system
D) being confusing to users
Q3) Why is user acceptance extremely critical in driving the success of an HRIS implementation?
Q4) Systems resistance is a term to describe a common response to any major change initiative,where individuals fail to accept the change and strive to maintain the status quo.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss three reasons why employees might be resistant to change.
Q6) What would you suggest an organization do in terms of communication if they were about to undergo a change in technology?
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Chapter 7: Cost Justifying HRIS Investments
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Q1) Describe the internal assessment method for estimating benefit magnitude.
Q2) The total cost of an HRIS implementation will be driven by number of employees in the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are some of the guidelines to a successful HRIS CBA?
Q4) An HRIS can provide the primary infrastructure used to ______.
A) deliver HR programs
B) ensure HR regulatory compliance
C) produce the metrics that are used to evaluate HR programs
D) all of these
Q5) A preliminary estimate of the CBA of an HRIS investment should
A) be calculated when the HRIS actual implementation begins
B) be presented to senior management before beginning detailed work on the project
C) be based on the reputation of the HRIS vendor
D) all of these
Q6) What are the three steps that should be used to construct dollar estimates of indirect benefits?
Q7) What are the three common problems that can occur in an HRIS CBA?
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Chapter 8: HR Administration and HRIS
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Q1) The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)is the federal legislation that requires organizations with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave after childbirth or adoption,to care for a seriously ill family member,or for an employee's own serious illness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ is best described as an "electronic access point to an organization's HRM information,such as company policies,benefits registration,and an individual's payroll data or other records; access may be via the organization's computers and intranet or remotely from other locations via the Internet."
A) A self-service portal
B) A shared-service center
C) Outsourcing
D) Offshoring
Q3) SOA is a collection of internal and external services that can communicate with each other by point-to-point data exchange or through coordination among different services to achieve a business purpose.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Talent Management
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Q1) Why do organizations need an adaptable workforce?
Q2) What is the talent management life cycle?
Q3) In human resources planning,the forecast for labor demand is based on ______.
A) training needs and performance appraisal
B) skills inventories and the labor market
C) annual employee turnover and expected strategic directions
D) budget allocations and degree of automation
Q4) From the SHRM poll on what HR professionals felt was the top investment challenge over the next 10 years,about ______ said the top challenge was obtaining human capital and optimizing human capital investments.
A) 70%
B) 35%
C) 47%
D) 85%
Q5) The KSAs for a specific job would be used for the ______.
A) organizational structure of the company
B) company's culture
C) recruitment of new employees
D) company's success
Q6) What is a good definition of talent management?
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Chapter 10: Recruitment and Selection in an Internet Context
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Q1) Online recruitment may have a negative impact on the extent to which organizations are able to attract women,older workers,and some minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Cascio (1991),which of the following is NOT a way of defining the quality of a job candidate?
A) the proportion who are successful on the job
B) the average numeric value of an outcome of interest (such as number of products sold or customers served)
C) the dollar amount of benefit resulting to the organization (such as the annual increase in revenue)
D) the degree of how positive a job evaluation is written by an immediate supervisor
Q3) What are some of the characteristics of an EFFECTIVE online recruiting website? Please discuss in some detail.
Q4) Please discuss what is meant by adverse impact.
Q5) What are some of the technological issues that arise through the use of technology in the function of selection?
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Chapter 11: Training and Development: Issues and HRIS Applications
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Q1) According to Peter Senge's book,which of the following is considered the "fifth element"?
A) shared visions
B) mental models
C) systems thinking
D) team learning
Q2) Explain the first step of the systems model of training and development and the role of HRIS in this step.
Q3) Please list and briefly describe the five interrelated disciplines that were suggested by Peter Senge that organizations should cultivate among their employees to engender learning and success.
Q4) Collaboration and communication in groupware context may be synchronous or asynchronous.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The costs involved in training are difficult to establish. A)True
B)False
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Q6) Explain why it is important for organizations to evaluate training and development.
Chapter 12: Performance Management, Compensation,
Payroll, and HRIS
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Q1) Compensation data is collected in house for benchmarking.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Employers must pay ______ for time worked in excess of 40 hours a week at an overtime rate of 1.5 times the normal pay.
A) exempt workers only
B) nonexempt workers only
C) exempt and nonexempt workers
D) all full-time workers
Q3) Which of the following provides regulations regarding executive pay?
A) ERISA
B) Sarbanes-Oxley
C) TARP
D) EEO
Q4) Websites with salary data are very accurate at giving the market rate of most jobs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Please explain the significance of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)for compensation programs.
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Chapter 13: HRIS and International HRM
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Q1) Repatriation is a process designed to
A) train expatriates prior to their first international assignment
B) help expatriate employees make the transition back home
C) adapt leadership and decision-making styles to the host country
D) reduce communication errors in foreign assignments
Q2) Global corporations,due to their integrative international focus,must manage their human capital through a transnational HRM system.What are the three attributes of this HRM system?
Q3) The "best structure" that fits the distribution and marketing needs of a global MNE is a geographic division by product lines.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An individual who was born in the United States and is currently working in Spain for a company headquartered in Germany would be considered a ______.
A) third-country national
B) parent-country national
C) host-country national
D) home-country national
Q5) What are the objectives of an international compensation policy?
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Chapter 14: HR Metrics and Workforce Analytics
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Q1) What is the most important use of HR metrics and analytics?
Q2) The Saratoga Institute/SHRM human resources metrics are
A) a highly valued overview of many HR metrics and the formulas used to calculate them
B) metrics that began to be used to measure HR effectiveness
C) used to measure or audit HR programs and activities
D) all of these
Q3) What is the difference between data mining and predictive analyses?
Q4) The metrics that focus on how well the HR department accomplishes its critical processes to support organizational effectiveness are ______.
A) strategic realignment
B) predictive analysis
C) computing infrastructures
D) administrative process efficiency
Q5) Strategic realignment involves the set of activities most commonly known as ______.
A) predictive analysis
B) benchmarking
C) Total Quality Management
D) human resource planning
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Chapter 15: HRIS Privacy and Security
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Q1) Viruses and trojans are common external security threats to organizations and often come in e-mail attachments.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these is NOT a well-known "worm" threat?
A) Slammer
B) Code Red
C) MyDoom
D) MyPirate
Q3) Which type of security threat is the most widespread,affecting almost 90% of companies?
A) computer fraud
B) phishing
C) denial of service
D) theft of hardware components, such as storage cards
Q4) Which of the following is NOT considered a threat to security?
A) human error
B) disgruntled employees and ex-employees
C) other "internal" attackers
D) none of these
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Chapter 16: HRIS and Social Media
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Q1) How does social media support employee engagement?
Q2) Lack of engagement at work can decrease absenteeism,decrease turnover,and improve firm performance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If used appropriately,social media can be a productive platform to improve employee engagement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Globally,since 2015,the use of social media sites ______.
A) increased
B) decreased
C) increased, then decreased
D) decreased, then increased
Q5) What country has the world's largest social network market,including government censorship?
A) Russia
B) Italy
C) India
D) China
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Chapter 17: The Future of HRIS: Emerging Trends in HRM and IT
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Q1) Executives say that ______ is the number-one issue facing their organization.
A) health care costs
B) employee turnover
C) data security and privacy
D) misuse of social media by disgruntled employees
Q2) One of the key demographic changes is that the workforce is becoming more ______.
A) complicated
B) monetarily driven
C) diverse
D) streamlined
Q3) The book states that more organizations will spend more time and effort assessing the most effective portfolio of HR technology and will likely consider moving to some type of consolidated technology platform.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One must look within and between countries to examine future trends in the HR fields.
A)True B)False
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