web folio 1: WEB-BASED EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE

Before using employee self service, HR professionals are spend more time in organize the information and data of employees on the paper. But, advanced of internet and technology produced Web-based employee self-service acts as a web-based application that contains information of employees to access HR services regarding to their employment. Employees can update their personal data especially critical information such as their address and emergency contacts, they can view their current and previous wages or payroll information with the benefits, access to request leave, view vacancy internal job posting and apply to attend training. Internet and advance in browser technology influence the development of employee self-service in each of the organization. But not each of the organization have employee self-service because the employer need to be consider the size of the company. Employee self-service is suitable for the organization that has almost 200 numbers of employees due to costs and difficulty of implementation and maintenance.

 HR departments can reduced their workload and cut time on administrative tasks because empolyees can access their own information without assisst  from HR professionals. HR departments will work more flexible and efficient manage personal and global information of employee  via the web. So, they are more proactive and play strategic role in organization Data of each empolyees are more accurate and also can increases the reability of the data and productivity of HR departments. There are several advantages used web-based employee self service to the organization:

a)      can reduce time dealing with HR departments

b)      provide better quality information and data on the system or web browser

c)      increases management information because of data protection

d)      employees gain more knowledge sharing and collaborative working across other departments or boundaries

e)      employees can access information of portals in everywhere and everytime because they used employees self-service in laptop or desktop computers, tablets and also smart phone or mobile devices.

f)        More sophisticated and informed decision-making

g)      Cut the cost and burden of HR administration

h)      Reduced manual data errors and increases the accuracy of HR information and data

i)        Improve the satisfaction of employees during access

Even though, there are many advantages used employee self-service but it also have several disadvantages to employees and HR departments when using this web browser which is:

a)      Changed in corporate culture

b)      Need staff resources to implement, administer and maintain

c)      Data protection may be breaches by hacker or identity theft

d)      Required new interfaces in terms of HR, payroll and others

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Peter Reilly, T. W. (2003). How to Get Best Value from HR . England: Gower Publishing Limited.

Tatnall, A. (2004). The New Gateways to Internet Information and Services. United States: Idea Group Publishing .