HR e-Leave Tour Management System at RDCIS, SAIL

Abstract

Every organization is information driven and it's the employee who drives and carries out day to day activities. The P&A department train the people, organizes them, so that employees can effectively perform these activities. This requires viewing people as human assets, not costs to the organization. Looking at people as assets is part of human resource management and human capital management. For managing and automating the HR Process to maximize the productivity of the organization, the organization has to implement HRMS, a Human Resource Management System. HRMS system will help in reducing costs, saving time, integrating and aligning HR efforts with the rest of the organization. Employees will be empowered and engage with more input and control over their work life. Through HRMS one can quickly build the workflows and processes. The powerful flexibility features keep employees current and compliant, even as rules and regulations change. For competent management of business process, computerization is must in today's scenario. RDCIS (Research and Development Centre for Iron & Steel), is a research unit of SAIL in the area of Iron Steel. The organization hierarchy is two tier architecture. Top level is Area and Bottom level is department. Each area has various departments. The P&A (Personnel & Administration) department carries out different activities for managing various Human Resource functions. The different functions carried out by P&A department are Manpower Planning, Succession plans, Redeployment/ Job rotation, Career Planning, Compensation Revision, Employee Profile, Manpower Statistics, Age/ Skill/ Qualification matrix, Employee Turnover, Utilization of perks (LTC, Company Leased Housing etc.), Facilities (Residential phone, Housing loan etc.), Employee Performance/ Appraisal analysis, Training program details, Stagnation Analysis etc. Without a computerize systems, it is very difficult to drive the HR functions, adjustment of personnel systems to meet current and future requirements, and the management of change. The project comprises of database design, application design and development of software for storage and retrieval for the maintenance of HR data through user friendly interfaces. The developed software also has mechanisms to avoid tampering of data. The software has been developed with 3-tier approach. The software tools used are Oracle Designer, Oracle Database and JSP. The software has been deployed with Tomcat Apache Server on Windows Operating System.