Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Web Based Compensation and Planning


Compensation is one of the complex areas in human resources management. Therefore, due to the complexities of creating and administering compensation systems are increasingly turning to technology for help. Web-based compensation planning represents a web that enable an organization to gather, store, manipulate, analyze, utilize, and distribute compensation data and information. And online benefits administration subsystem is used to administer the organization’s benefit plans through internet integrate with other human resource information and payroll system.

            The compensation data required in the web-based system is including internal and external data. Internal data include information about job description, job specification, individual performance and others. External data would include market survey data and information on rewards practices. Internal and external data would be combined and used to generate job evaluation results, salary structures and a variety of reward guidelines. Therefore, from the internal and external data, the primary data outflow from the compensation modules is payroll for each employee.

With the web-based compensation and benefit system, it has both advantage and disadvantage. The advantages are including it is very save time because using technology to simplify the process and it improving the effectiveness in terms of accuracy of information. Besides that, it also allows a business to streamline the administration of employee compensation and benefit. By the report prepared by the system, it let the manager have ready information that is valuable to them and to their employees. For disadvantage is some of the employees and managers they view this new technology as the “work of HR” and therefore they feel resist to using it and perceive that the new technology is not as user-friendly.

There are certain implications for management in web-based compensation and benefit system because online compensation and benefit subsystem is tied with human resource department. The utilization of Online Compensation and Benefits Subsystems plays an active role in help top management and employees in implementing the new strategies and policies. Therefore, E-Compensation and E-Benefits seem to be the system of HRM to revised company strategy and structure. It is also help the management in redefined the employee’s responsibilities and improves the HR services by improving two way communications in order to leading to higher levels of interaction and satisfaction with human resources. Although E-compensation and E-benefits has positive impact to organization, but due to the reasons lack of time and the willingness to pick them up, so the organization has limited opportunity to experience it. 

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References:
Rothwell W. J and Kazanas H.C, (2003), Planning and Managing Human Resources, Amherst: HRD Press. Inc

Teresa T. C and Mario A. O, (2005), E-Human Resources Management, United States of America: Idea Group Publishing

Gueutal. H. G and Dianna L. S. (2005), The Brave New World of e-HR, San Francisco: John Wiley & Son. Inc

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