Could you go over the second question for case number 2? I understood the second part where IT systems are not helpful, like for measuring personal characteristics, but I zoned out when you were talking about the entry level positions...
Between the two systems, accounting IS and financial mgmt systems, do companies choose to have only one running in their business? You said that the financial mgmt system is simpler than the accounting because it really only has two issues, short-term and long-term financing issues, does this make a huge difference to organizations? Is the financial mgmt system more popular because of its simplicity?
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Kate:
ReplyDeleteRe the second question of the second case: HRIS have potential benefit for jobs solely characterizable by "quantifiable" skills--e.g., typing, knowledge of Excel, CPA certificate, TQM training, etc. HRIS are MUCH less useful for identifying good job candidates where the requisite skills are less "hard"--e.g., identifying tact, persuasion, and motivation for salespeople; identifying judgment and experience for managers; identifying empathy, emotional intelligence, and compassion in counselors, etc.
Good question! Most companies (medium size and up, and many small companies, too) utilize SEVERAL functional business systems at the same time--partly because the functional systems all live in their isolated silos, running one system (in finance) does not affect the running of other systems (e.g., for accounting purposes).
I wish you had asked this question in class...
Doug