| All in all, the
HR function is still to a large degree administrative and common
to all organizations. To changeable degrees, most organization has
official selection, costing, and payroll processes. Efficient and
effective management of the "Human Capital" Pool (HCP)
has become an increasingly imperative and complex activity to all
HR professionals. The HR function consists of tracking countless
data points on each employee, from personal histories, data, skills,
capabilities, experiences to payroll records. To reduce the manual
workload of these administrative activities, organizations began
to automatically automate many of these processes by introducing
innovative HRMS/HCM technology. Due to difficulty in programming,
capabilities and limited technical resources, HR executives rely
on internal or external IT professionals to develop and maintain
their Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS). Before the "client-server"
architecture evolved in the late 1980s, every single HR automation
process came largely in form of mainframe computers that could handle
large amounts of data transactions. In consequence of the high capital
investment necessary to purchase or program proprietary software,
these internally developed HRMS were limited to medium to large
organizations being able to afford internal IT capabilities. |