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Design And Development Of Personnel Information System
[A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION]
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1.4 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This project seeks to design and develop an efficient and effective Personnel Information System (PIS) using National Population Commission as a case study. It also aims at identifying the importance of Personnel Information System in handling personnel records against the manual method. Specifically, the following are the objective of the study.
• To identify the various problems of manual approach towards handling Personnel Information System in the Commission.
• To identify and eliminate the major problems encountered through the use of manual method of processing personnel information like falsification of records, ghost workers among others.
• To develop an integrated and rationalized Personnel Information System in NPopC.
• To suggest other measures that will help in eradicating the problem associated with manual method of handling personnel information matters.
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS.
Three Null (Ho) hypothesis though not tested are proposed to strengthen the concept of the project work.
• HI Personnel Information System will enhance significantly the processing of staff records in the National Population Commission.
• HO Personnel Information System will not enhance significantly the processing of staff records in the National Population Commission.
• HI Personnel Information System will significantly affect adversely the staff strength of the Commission.
• H0 Personnel Information System will not significantly affect adversely the staff strength of the Commission.
• HI Personnel Information System will eradicate fraud, corruption and other malpractices in the Commission.
• HO Personnel Information System will not eradicate fraud, corruption and other malpractices in the Commission.
1.6 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY:
This study is significant in the sense that it determines the benefit accruable to the staff of the Nation Population Commission through the use of Personnel Information System against the manual method. These include:
• It supports large volume of data processing and storage; promote information retrieval, addition, deletion, as well as other database updating activities.
• It provides relevant, complete, accurate and timely information to the management and staff.
• It exposes and equips the staff of the Commission to the field of information technology by sending them to training to acquire necessary skills in Information Technology (IT).
• It evaluates quickly the establishment and payment changes.
• It demonstrates the importance of modernization of information and communication.
• It improves the quality of information communication by making it available to all the staff of the Commission at the time of their need.
• The system will enable the managers of the Commission discharge their managerial function easily on any staff at any level due to availability of information.
• It demonstrates how business needs could be met efficiently and effectively through the application of information tools made available by the advances in the field of science and technology.
• The software will be able to compliment personnel database with payroll database. Hence, enhancing the Personnel Management Information System and tighten the control of the payroll database.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY:
In the course of carrying out this project some factors tried to hinder the free flow of the work. These factors include:
FINANCE: Finance constituted major problem as there was no sufficient fund to round for the required materials, visit library, and cybercafẻ.
LACK OF MATERIALS: It was not easy to get written text on the subject matter from libraries and internet.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL FILES OF STAFF: It was not easy to have access to personal files of staff. A lot of persuasion and conviction was applied before the management could grant permission for us to have access to the staff files, where we extracted the form, format we used as a model in this project.
TIME: Time was not at my liberty being a student| who is fully engaged with my studies, it was not easy for me to squeeze out time for me to out the project.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThis work intends to provide a computer based system for the maintenance of personnel records of employees in organization. The work addresses limitations identified with manual method of handling personnel records of employees in a firm by providing a better platform to eliminate fraud, corruption, file hiding and misplacement, records falsification, duplication, fragmentation, inconsistencies and other vices attendant with manual method of handling personnel records. The Personnel Info ... Continue reading---
