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What is an HRIS? A Beginner’s Guide to Human Resource Information Systems

HR Digest

An HRIS (Human Resources Information System) is a software solution that helps organizations manage and automate core HR processes like payroll, time tracking, and employee benefits administration. There are many central features that make up these human resource information systems. What is an HRIS?

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HR Innovation is Best Achieved Internally

LDRLB

Compassion is the medium of expression of the belief that fellow human beings deserve something better. After that, constraints tend to fade away in the vigor of the innovation. Since the incentive paid was a fraction of the additional business achieved, finance didn’t have an issue either!

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. By long tradition, women in that country face strong social and cultural constraints on their mobility and professional aspirations.

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Don't Waste Your Time Telling Employees How to Vote

Harvard Business Review

Today's climate of employee dissatisfaction, distrust, and disengagement, as reported in numerous surveys conducted by organizations ranging from the Conference Board to Gallup and human resource consulting firms, will surely keep Scott Adams in Dilbert ideas for years.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Every other function of the organization is as out of touch as IT.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. With increasing investments in IT security, data systems, digital technology, human resources, and compliance, many health systems are seeing corporate service costs increase faster than 10% annually, well above their rate of revenue growth.

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