Your organization is contemplating the purchase of a new human resource information system and has tasked you with formulating a proposal. Organizational details for you to consider for this assignment are as follows:

There are a total of 500 employees at the site;

450 non-exempt employees who clock in and out each day, and 50 exempt employees who do not use a time clock and are paid a standard weekly salary.

The organization has an electronic time capture and payroll system already in place that: - Is manually updated when employees are hired or terminate employment - Is a stand-alone application, not interacting with any other database system - Is maintained by two full-time payroll administrators, reporting to one payroll manager

Human resource records are primarily paper-based: - Employee personnel files are maintained in file folders - Personnel files are manually updated with demographic, performance, and disciplinary information - Demographic data is available currently in an Excel database, which is manually updated - Personnel files are maintained by four full-time human resource clerks, who are non-exempt and report to the full-time HR manager.

1. Summarize components of each HRIS software system in a table format that visually differentiates software packages from the other. Components would be:

Objective (cost, reporting capabilities, operating system, etc.) and

Subjective (ease of use, customer service, reliability of product, customer reviews, etc.)

2. Develop recommendations that:

Address the varying degrees of access for managers, support functional groups based on their need to know