Introduction to HRIS

According to Yan (2010), the complex business environment is seen as multidimensional, with numerous and differentiated effects on various organizational characteristics and processes. Therefore, the business environment should altered aligning with the worldwide changes to increase competitiveness.

Firstly, the major development that has significantly impacted business has been globalization. Faster methods of transportation, together with instantaneous information, have allowed the world to become one giant marketplace. Consumers can now buy products from foreign firms as easily as they can from a local store. (Albrecht and Sack, 2000) I see that the advanced technology that have been invented nowadays enable people easily access to the business around the world with just a finger tip.

According to Khanore, Patil and Dand (2011), many of the industrial powers are being transformed from industrial economies to knowledge-and information-based service economies, whereas manufacturing has been moving to lower-wage countries. In a knowledge-and information-based economy, knowledge and information are key ingredients in creating wealth. In today’s society, I found that people realize the importance of knowledge and they further their studies in higher education in order to find a better job instead of working as a worker in factory or farms.

Besides, transformation of the business enterprise also altered the business environment. The traditional business firm was a hierarchical, centralized, structured arrangement of specialists who typically relied on a fixed set of standard operating procedures to deliver a mass-produced product. The new style of business firm is a flattened, decentralized, flexible arrangement of generalists who rely on nearly instant information to deliver mass- customized products and services uniquely suited to specific markets or customers. (Khanore, Patil and Dand, 2011) I see that it may be aimed to save time and cost of the company.

Lastly, there is a change in emergence of the digital firm. According to Laudon (2006), a digital firm is one where nearly all of the organization's significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated. In my opinion, digital firm not only can increase the profit of the company, but it also makes people more convenient in buying a product or service.

References:

      1.      Laudon, K. & Laudon, J. (2006), Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm

(http://www.ta-u.net/up/uploads/files/ta-u.com-27fe6a3b984.pdf)

2.      W. Steve Albrecht & Robert J. Sack (2000), Accounting education: Charting the course through a perilous future

(http://aaahq.org/pubs/AESv16/chapter2.pdf)

3.      Prof. Sheetal Khanore, Prof. Rajendra Patil and Prof. Hiren Dand (2011), Management Information System

(http://www.mu.ac.in/myweb_test/MCA%20study%20material/M.C.A.(Sem%20-%20III)%20-%20Management%20Information%20System.pdf)

4.  Shigang Yan (2010), Competitive Strategy and Business Environment: The Case of Small Enterprises in China

(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDcQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccsenet.org%2Fjournal%2Findex.php%2Fass%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F6537%2F5980&ei=DKFoUvv5AsWPrQeFioCoDQ&usg=AFQjCNG0c4mtCUflcfWvrAHnHMsIlAE5jA&bvm=bv.55123115,d.bmk)