Abstract:
The study aimed at examining the perceived importance of human resource information system
(HRIS) in business. A structured questionnaire was used to get an opinion from human resource
end-users from the 55 scheduled banks consisted of 8427 branches. A total of 1200 responses
were returned as the complete form. The study then extracted the perceived important reasons of
using HRIS in business through principal component (PCA) analysis. In addition, one-way analysis
of variance (ANOVA) was tested to examine the variance levels among the responses. The results
of the existing study revealed that HRIS only automates the repetitive HR functions but also facili tates HR end-users in allocating workforces effectively, promoting suitable corporate culture, de signing employees’ career plan and improving services to the employees. Further, it found no sig nificant variances among HR end-users’ responses on the perceived importance of HRIS according
to their demographic variables. Albeit many studies had been conducted on the importance of
HRIS, there was hardly any study that had gone through factor analysis. However, this study pro vided broad evidence to enrich the existing literature in the respective field, with improved me thodological and measurement issues including factor analysis over the previous studies, to un leash the importance of HRIS in business.
