Introduction
Information Technology is the way forward for any organization that is trying to stay ahead in the market. This applies to all the departments within a given company. This may range from production, human resource, and even accounts. It gives a platform for organization, efficiency, and easy accessibility. The above advantages and many others will be explained in the later sections of the essay. (Zvi, 1994).
Advantages in the Human Resource Department
Information technology through the internet facilitates communication between two parties who may be separated by miles and miles. This means that even if the head of the Human resource department is away, he or she can be able to convey information without leaving the confines of their location. People in the department can also be able to access ideas that are not available in the company. This means that the company can become more unified as there will be coordination through these various departments.
IT will enable the HR department to save on time because it will be able to focus more of its energy on the generation of ideas rather than input, processing, and storage of data. This will all be done by IT. The advantage of this is that it will help boost the productivity of the department because members of the team will see that they do not have to spend too much of their time manually and yet have very little to show for it. This increases their morale and will therefore increase profits for the company.
Before this system will be put in place, individuals think that it will improve their working hours and they would not have to spend most of their time commuting from home to work. On the contrary, people will now spend more of their time working especially where pay is directly related to the input. This is because it will be possible to work at home and employees who have their work with them at home can hardly avoid the temptation to work for long hours.
The human resource department looks into the development of new ideas that motivate workers in the whole company. This means that the department must examine the product of the various departments that exist in a company. This means that it is possible to monitor progress within various categories through IT and hence come up with better strategies to boost sales in the Company. (Chris, 2006)
The company could also experience some problems in its running especially when private information that is highly sensitive is accessed. This implies that some information or company secrets can be accessed. This will bring about a drug in the profits gained by a given company because this will eliminate any competitive edge which a particular industry had over others; their trade secrets have been discovered.
Conclusion
IT will enable the Human resource department to improve its efficiency as a result of many reasons. Some of these include; coordination of interdepartmental activities which is a crucial role for any human resource department. IT will also increase the productivity of individuals because they can save on time and resources that they would have spent when trying to store or access data. It will also cause an increase in the generation of ideas because communication will be enabled through the internet. Lastly, it will facilitate information transmission between management in the department and other members of the team.
Reference
Chris, F. (2006): Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies to Business; Handbook of Information Systems, Economics and Information Systems.
Zvi, G. (1994): Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint; journal of American Economic Review.