Evaluating major human resource information systems design characteristics – an empirical study

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Strohmeier;Ruediger Kabst

  • Affiliations:
  • Management Information Systems, Saarland University, P.O. Box 151150, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany.;Human Resource Management, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Licher Strasse 62, 35394, Giessen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Business Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper examines the question whether major design characteristics of current human resource information systems (HRIS) actually contribute to HRIS success. To do so, we initially identify: a) functional enrichment with 'managerial' functions; b) functional integration of HRIS into general management information systems (MIS); c) systematic web-enablement of HRIS as three major design innovations of HRIS of recent years. We discuss why these design characteristics contribute to HRIS success and derive a conceptual model with corresponding hypotheses. Subsequently, we employ an international large-scale survey which combines logistic regression and neural network analysis to test these hypotheses. Our results draw quite a positive picture of these design innovations, since in particular the move towards managerial functions and the web-enablement contribute to HRIS success, while there are mixed findings concerning the integration of HRIS with general MIS.