Human Resource Information System with Mobile Application for Hotel

Abstract

In this project, an attempt is made to give a biometric device based, Human Resource Information System for Human Resource Department of Bright Bravo Hotel (BBH) in Kurunegala. They already have a fingerprint biometric device but without a proper system to manage employee profiles, attendance records, leave and payroll functions. This new system can help the human resource manager to reduce manual workload and especially streamline time attendance and payroll processes in a smooth, accurate and trouble-free way just by the use of the fingerprints of their employees. Human Resource Manager can increase the employee engagement for day to day HR functions, easily by using the mobile application that is provided as one output of this project. A hotel was selected as the client because that trade has more complex attendance requirement among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in Sri Lanka. Human Resource (HR) is the greatest asset any organization possesses irrespective of its size, 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 the strongest attention to their HR development. The large organizations have sufficient resources and infrastructure to manage their HR operations which small and medium-sized enterprises lack. When it’s focused on small and medium hotels, most of them have 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. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)s 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 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 HRIS 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 2015.