Manpower Information
One can define the organizational information as the
information required by a number of personnel, departments and divisions or the
functions in the organization. Such information can be determined by
constructing a matrix of information versus user as show in Table.
It can be observed from the table that the information entity
is one, but its usages are different. For example, the employee attendance
information would be used by the personnel department for legal compliance of
maintaining the muster recommended by the Factory Inspector. The production
manager would use it for scheduling, rescheduling and loading of the jobs on the
shop floor depending upon the persons present. The corporate planning and administration
will use it for manpower assessment and control and manpower forecasting.
|
Information Entity
|
Manager
(Personnel)
|
Manager (Production)
|
Manager
(Administration)
|
Manager
(Accounts)
|
|
Employees attendance
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
|
Salary Wages and
Overtime
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
Human Resources
Information
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
The organizational information requirement needs to be
studied thoroughly and critically as it is used across the organization. It is necessary, therefore, to map the
information in terms of the data source, generation and usage, so that the
designer can provide a path from the acquisition to the generation and the
storage.
