I\u2019ve been exposed to a lot of HRIS organizations over the years, and some of them are great while others\u00a0 seem to underperform to me.\u00a0 They all seem do to roughly the same things, but they seem to have varying degrees of effectiveness.\u00a0 My thought is that while the basic tasks are the same, there is an underlying philosophical position that either exists or does not \u2013 and it\u2019s this philosophical position that determines if an HRIS function is a great one or not.<\/p>\n
The basic functions are pretty clear:\u00a0 HRIS often facilitates analytics, records functional requirements, leads technical vendor selections, implementations and upgrades, etc.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to suggest that while most HRIS organizations do most of these functions and more, some might exclude a bit here and there, and so there isn\u2019t total consistency across HRIS functions, which is ok.<\/p>\n
The philosophical position that sometimes exists and sometimes does not, is less about task and more about belief.\u00a0 HRIS is about understanding what happens when HR executes programs and how these things impact data.\u00a0 Along with this understanding comes a completely different set of activities than those above.\u00a0 Rather than being responsive, HRIS becomes an advocate for the enablement of HR\u2019s future strategies: data governance, technology road maps, creating data quality are all keys to how HRIS will push forward technology rather than simply responding to the complains about how awful it is.<\/p>\n
HRIS does not just take care of our technologies and help us understand data.\u00a0 They should be the stewards of data as we create business process transactions in the entire HR environment.\u00a0 They should understand that engineering processes in a particular way will drive higher data quality, and infuse these principles into all of our functional process mapping activities.\u00a0 HRIS should anticipate needs from HR strategy and be among the first to understand how those strategies can be enabled with data and technology tools.<\/p>\n
When HRIS understands that they are about how the functional is tied data, we become more action oriented than response oriented.\u00a0 We often mistake HRIS as an organization that makes connections between the technologies when in fact it\u2019s about connections between technology and function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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