Importance of HR Planning and HRIS in Organisational Strategy

Reviewing the Literature
Article 1
Full reference of the article: Evolution of Human Resource Management towards
sustainable HRM
Bright Hub PM. (2019). Evolution of Human Resource Management: The Personnel
Management Phase. Retrieved 16 August 2019, from
https://www.brighthubpm.com/resource-management/77199-walking-down-the-timeline-
of-hr-management-how-has-it-evolved/
Ricardo de Souza Freitas, W., José Chiappetta Jabbour,
C., & César Almada Santos, F. (2011). Continuing the
evolution: towards sustainable HRM and sustainable
organizations. Business strategy series, 12(5), 226-234.
The article provides a literature review on the evolution
of HRM to highlight on the fields of human resource
management (HRM) and information technology (IT)
and the relationship between these two segments as
human resource information system (HRIS). It discusses
about different activities practiced by HR and various
information systems in HRIS. The purpose is to focus on
the managerial decision making to provide with a
strategic goal by evaluating results and reports in HRIS.
Objective and research question: (75-100 words)
 Evolution of HRM impacts the changing role of

human resource professional.
 To define the impact of technology in evolution
of HRM and HRIS.
 To define the managerial decision making
aspects
 To understand HRM and HRIS comprises in
model of organisational functioning.
 To define the six sigma, use of balance scorecard
and contingency perspective and fit model of
HRM.
 To determine the developments in HRIS which
leads to strategic partner in organisation and
volution of strategic human resource
management (Strategic HRM).
Questions:
1. How does the HR function becomes the strategic
partner of the organisation?
2. What position is involved in traditional,
transactional and transformational HR activities?
Method: (50-75 words)
The article is based on secondary data which is collected
through various sources of academic journals, scholarly
books and articles. The research method contains

analysis of data collection and the data which is for
sociological research. This method helps the researcher
to have an analysis of evolution of HRM context with
the help of academic and practitioner field of HRIS.
Findings and discussion (250 words)
The article provides a sustainable HRM
evolution that helps to achieve a
sustainable organisation. The use of HRIS
with several advantages such as; it
provides an integrated database which
helps the organisation to have structural
communication within different
departments. This enhances the speed and
accuracy of the information transactions. It
provides with competitive advantage with
the improvement in HR operations and
management processes. It collects relevant
data and converts them into information
for improved efficiency and timely data
collection and improves the quality of the
decision making process. It improves
employee satisfaction by delivering HR
services more quickly and accurately. The
HR activities involves recruiting,
selecting, training, establishing employee
relations, and advancing compensation

policies. HR practices are of three types;
transactional, traditional, and
transformational. The transactional
activities involves everyday transactions
that deals with record keeping of payroll
information, administering employee
benefits, and tracking the status of
employees. The traditional activities
involves HR programs which focuses on
planning, performance management,
training and many more. The
transformational activities adds value for
the organisation with increase in culture,
organisational change, strategic direction
and improves innovation. Thus, the
evolution of HRM helps the organisation
with six sigma approach that provides no
error in the functions of HR practices and
strategies. The HRM identifies the
environment for strategic decision making
approach thus improves the organisation’s
technical aspects that keeps track on
employees and their performance. This
approach also helps the company with cost
effectiveness in the increased competitive
market through automation and
introduction of productivity improvement
measures.

Conclusion (50-75 words)
The article concludes that the primary
purpose of the article was to introduce the
academic and practitioner field of human
resource information system. It helped in
record keeping, development of HRIS and
also helped to enable HRM to be the
strategic partner of the organisation. The
increase period of completion of
transformational activities helps to
improve by HRM programs to add value
in the strategic plan of an organization.
How this article will contribute to my Essay 3. (50-75 words)
This article helps to understand the effectiveness of HR practices and introduction of IT in
the organisation for providing the organisation with strategic human resource approach.
With the strategies of HR, the organisation can benefit with accuracy, efficiency,
competitiveness and many more. Thus by referencing this article our article on evolution of
HRM can improve and helps to deal with all practicality and critical situations that
effective HRM can provide our organisation in the competitive global market.
Article 2
Full reference of the article: Organisational context and human resource management
Wu, N., Bacon, N., & Hoque, K. (2014). The adoption of high performance work practices
in small businesses: the influence of markets, business characteristics and HR

expertise. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(8), 1149-1169.
This article identifies the relationship between the organisational contextual variables and
human resource management (HRM) practices. This focuses on theoretical perspective of
the resources based approach and transaction cost economies and mainly the concept of
strategic management. This article focuses on the impact of human resource management
practices in an organisation that helps to enhance the efficiency of organisational growth.
Objective and research question: (75-100 words)
 To analyse the effectiveness of Human Resource
Management in organisational context
 To determine the outcome of training and
development of employees for organisational
growth.
 To view the impact of human resource
management for enhancing productivity.
Questions
1. How the various factors impacts to change
the internal and external environment of the
organisation?
2. How to address the effectiveness of human
resource management to gain competitive
advantage in an organisation?
3. What are the organisational strategic goals
that the organisation tries to achieve in global