Week 2 HRM 330 HW Assignment
For this week homework assignment we were asked to read the case study found on page 119 and answer the three supplemental questions found below. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Benefast Partners’ strategy. Describe what changes (if any) I would make going forward. As well as what methods I would employ to ensure that an HRIS package meets the majority of clients’ need.
Benefast Partners have more than 20,000 staff members so they have greater need for efficiency. The strategy for Benefast Partners is to target a larger market, which is crucial for the firm to implement an effective and efficient system that will consider information accuracy with the aid of technology so as to simplify all the processes. In this case especially, Benefast is prone to getting sets of large data hence the need for an effective system. In the past Benefast faced the challenge of providing administrative software that meets the needs of a large marketplace.
So Benefast carried out several conversations on needs analysis with colleagues from a different office. The results revealed that time processing were a major concern. The firm then sub-divided its market and strictly concentrated on the clients that fairly met stringent requirements. A system was established whose base was on clients that had easy plans to administer to. From then on, the Benefast firm then on only dealt with clients who had no multi-plans and additionally those that neither required retirement modeling nor benefits coordination. In addition the web interface which was limited (Reference: case study).
Going forward, I would evaluate the many barriers, including insufficient skills and capital, to effective implementation of HRIS. In addition, lack of qualified staff in HRIS, lack of commitment or support from the top management or information technology and design staff. Every