Exam 1: A Brief History and Overview of Technology in HR

As the HR director,you were given the task of providing awards to all employees with 10,20,and 30 years of service to the organization.However,your company has 25,000 employees globally.Explain how an HRIS can assist you in completing this task.

Describe the distinction between eHRM and HRIS.

What is the desired effect of the implementation of an HRIS on the three types of HR activities?

Recruiting new employees from the external labor market is an example of an HR transactional activity.

Time and motion studies influenced the scientific management philosophy of managing employees.

Business process reengineering and the creation of the HR or Workforce Scorecard was characteristic of the Technological Advancement Era.

According to the book,an HRIS

A focus on data,storage,processing,and flows at the operational level and efficient transaction processing is referred to as a management information system (MIS).

While eHRM is a way of conducting HR,the HRIS is the technology through which eHRM is enabled.

What are the three types of HR activities? Define them with examples.

HR activities or programs that increase the strategic importance and visibility of the HR function in the firm are referred to as transformational activities.

The change in focus of the HRM function as adding value to the organization's product or service took place during the ______ Era.

The system used to acquire,store,manipulate,analyze,retrieve,and distribute information regarding an organization's human resources is call the enterprise resource planning system (ERPS).

The activities during the pre-World War II era included all the following EXCEPT for this:

To improve the effectiveness of the HR function,activities that can be handled through computerization are ______.