You are to assume the role of HR assistant working in a mid-size, private sector, unionized firm. The HR department has been charged with creating an HR plan to strengthen the strategic advantages your department provides for the company.
Use the scenario below to help you plan to resolve an issue related to the HRIS component.
Scenario:
Currently, all employee records are kept on paper in employee files secured in a locked filing cabinet. This worked well for many years until additional locations were opened and the employment files are not easily accessed by all HR employees. Payroll is processed by hand in the accounting department using hand-written time cards for each hourly employee. The payroll run is rarely clean because there are errors made in math and due to poor handwriting. Also, front-line managers find it cumbersome to check the timecards each week and often do not do it, creating more errors and increasing the likelihood of employees misrepresenting the amount of time worked each week. Each year open enrollment is processed using paper packets for each employee that then must be converted into a spreadsheet to be sent to the benefits broker.
Now that you have read the above scenario, answer each of the seven questions based on what you have learned this week in paragraph form.
- Explain the service provided by the HR component to the employer.
- Define the strategic advantage the HR component provides to an employer in the hiring and retaining of qualified employees.
- Internal Audit: Using the scenario, describe 1 current practices used by the employer that can be improved
- External Audit: Using outside research, describe two best practices for the issue you identified in the above prompt.
- Using the results of your external audit above, make a recommendation on how to improve the selected issue.
- Explain the expected results and how they will be measured
- Discuss the possible challenges and how you will overcome them.
Please include any references and in-text citations with page numbers.