Authors:
Peter K. Osei Nyame
1
and
Richard Boateng
2
Affiliations:
1
Methodist University College Ghana, Ghana
;
2
University of Ghana Business School, Ghana
Keyword(s):
HRIS Adoption, e-HRM, Virtual HR, Information Technology, Information System.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
HCI on Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract:
The study looked at the adoption of Human Resource Information System (HRIS) among Ghanaian firms. A survey was conducted on 129 firms out of the 150 samples randomly selected from both the public and the private sectors in the country with a response rate of 86%. The findings first revealed that the adoption rate of HRIS in enterprises is not a common practice in Ghana since two-thirds of the organizations have never adopted HRIS use. Major general denominators for adoption and use of HRIS include firm size, organization type (i.e. profit making limited liability companies and profit making government organization) and age as well as the industry to which firms belong. Firms attributed the slow rate of adoption to reasons including the low numbers of employees, high cost of system installation, unawareness and low priority for such a system. Again, it was realized that the companies’ readiness to adopt such a system was not encouraging. There were some technical, organizational and
environmental factors that affect HRIS adoption which were unearthed.
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