Transforming Human Resources at Novartis: The Human Resources Informations System (HRIS)

Jennifer A. Chatman1 Haas School of Business University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1900 chatman@haas.berkeley.edu And Sandra E. Cha Harvard Business School Soldiers Field, Sherman Hall 102 Harvard

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Human Resources is not known for early adoption or being innovative. Human Resources is known for its compliance orientation and focus on risk mitigation. What has put HR in a innovation zone today, is the new technologies and the potential to increase engagement and productivity and the pull of employee

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Seonaidh McDonald1* and Caroline J. Oates2 1 Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, UK 2 Management School, University of Sheffield, UK

The Pharmaceutical industry is passing through a very challenging period in its evolution with the traditional approaches to conducting pharmaceutical research and development being increasingly challenged (Piachaud 2004, pg.xii). Successful pharmaceutical organizations have recognized the need to effectively leverage resources and so have come to rely on the wealth of expertise provided by specialist external suppliers, such as The Chemist Warehouse (Piachaud 2004, pg.xii). This essay will provide a short background to the nature and trends of the industry, administrative performance within the organization, including

In today’s competitive markets the use of technology has incorporated itself into every branch of employee responsibilities, technology has changed the way that business conduct operation controls and has increased the effectiveness of an employee, allowing one individual to be able to take on larger workload, helping to decrease a company’s fixed cost. While technology has greatly advanced physical jobs such a machinery, it has also began the develop management styles effecting the way managers take an approach at analyzing employee performance. The latest trend is for the Human Resource department to become more computer based, thus the advancement of Human Resource Management has now turned to a new system tool known as HRIS. Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) are defined as a database that contains information on recruitment, applicant qualifications, job specifications, hiring procedures, organizational structures, professional development, training costs, performance evaluation, workforce diversity, and employee attrition. This data is valuable as it provides higher and middle management with the resources for planning, organizing, and controlling vast workforces. A HRIS can be used to organize employee’s information, help companies forecast labor demands, and compute the supply and demand of the competitive workforce in local / national labor markets (Nguyen Ngoc Duc, Sununta Siengthai, Steve Page, 2013, p. 107). These information systems provide

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Office automation has become a reality. Stand-alone personal computers are universally used for word processing, and spread sheets have become the workhorses of office life. As a result, electronic records are being created virtually everywhere in the world. Wherever computers are used to carry out a function records are being generated. Records provide the primary evidence of how the functions of public administration are carried out. They are the building blocks of accountability.