Human Resource Management System for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Abstract

Human Resource (HR) is the greatest asset any organization possesses irrespective of their sizes, and it must make sure that the potential is utilized to the maximum to contribute towards the growth of the organization. It is not a secret that top performing organizations in any industry are the ones that pay strongest attention on their HR development. The large organizations have sufficient resources and infrastructure to manage their HR operations which Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) lack.. When it‟s focused to SMEs, most of them has a separate department called a human-resource department to handle their Human Resource Management (HRM) functions same as in large organizations. Unlike most of the large organizations, the HR departments of SMEs perform their daily operations manually, which causes inefficiency, poor quality, duplicate of work and finally employee dissatisfaction. SMEs cannot afford to hire a large team of HR professionals or purchasing expensive Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) available in the market. Most of the SMEs have tried such solutions. However; it has been understood that the problems still remain or new problems have been arisen. When the local industries are considered, a larger portion is consumed by SMEs and lacking of cost effective proper HRMS is a common problem to the majority of those SMEs. Hence, it‟s proven that there is a need of a cost effective, customizable HRMS developed for local SMEs. By identifying the core HR functionalities of local SMEs and analyzing benefits and drawbacks of the available HRMS solutions in the market, it was decided to implement an automated HRMS with some value-added features to eliminate the aforementioned problems faced by SMEs. Since the system has been implemented in a modular approach, it‟s possible to customize as per future requirements and as well to integrate it with new functionalities. I believe the problems faced by HR departments can be eliminated more effectively using the system which has been implemented using Visual Studio C#.net 2010