Building an Electronic Personnel Management System for HR Administration

In an increasingly high-tech world, human resource management (HRM) has to keep abreast of these changes. In the advanced countries, governments and industry have long since adopted e-HRM, in order to meet global challenges. In handling this exponential growth of data, the CSC has decided to move away from its current paper-centric personnel management system and to replace this by the PPSS. This electronic system manages a full range of personnel related processes and is in the final stage of deployment across the Korean central government agencies. In doing so, it has achieved for itself a high scoring, in terms of perceived benefit. Its rollout to other government agencies (that include local government, the National Assembly, the National Election Commission and the Constitutional Court of Korea) is now fully supported. HR management by the PPSS replaces current manual processes, with its inherent paper dependency, by a system that now offers strategic planning potential and affording its users core access at any time and from multiple work-stations. This paper lists factors that help towards a successful implementation. It highlights the lessons learned by a detailed analysis of a case study for a typical installation. The paper also addresses the expectations for potential users, at all levels of operation. As with all electronic and digital systems, the essential security requirements are discussed, and its role in building the trust and confidence in its routine use.