The Effectiveness of Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) Application in Managing Human Resource at the Perlis State Secretary Office

Implementation of Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) in the public sector has sparked a broad cultural change in which all public servants should be transferred from the working environment manually to an electronic culture. Taking the importance of the study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the HRMIS in human resource management at the Perlis State Secretary Office (SUK Perlis) in terms of system quality, information quality, user satisfaction and system use. To achieve these objectives, the survey has been conducted on staff in SUK Perlis to obtain information how far the effectiveness of the HRMIS through quantitative and qualitative survey methods. A total of 46 respondents have provided feedback regarding the study, and were analyzed using SPSS v15 for Windows version and further descriptive information to confirm the hypotheses that have been identified.
Results from this study can also be essential to the effectiveness of HRMIS in the management of human resources at the SUK Perlis. Overall, all officers and employees of Perlis State Secretariat gave good feedback and are satisfied with the quality of HRMIS systems as well, the quality of information, the system use then will get user satisfaction. Based on this study, a few suggestion and recommendation had been proposed to improve the HRMIS performance. One of the suggestion is to upgrade the HRMIS main server which are located in Public Service Department (PSD), Putrajaya to increase the capabilities of the server for support more user‟s around the country. Second suggestion is, PSD can develop a distributed data centre divided by zoning. For example, for Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Perak, PSD can provide one distributed data centre somewhere in north religion. The information in the HRMIS can be shared by the public as a main directory of public service. The possible information that can be shared are, name‟s of the user, job position and the department. There is suggestion to improve the interface for enhance the efficient and reliable applications.