Web-Based Employee Self-Service

Web-Based Employee Self-Service is an web-based application that help employee provide their personal data through the interactive technology interaction with employer. Nowadays, peoples wanted everything to be faster such as utilities payment, give and get information as well as sending report. Besides that, it is a bonus and advantage if the system fully facilitate business or operation efficiently.

Traditional paper-based processes

            Based on these global and faster situations nowadays, before this employee need to fill out forms to request holidays manually by HR department. Web-Based Employee Self-Service is technologies that can save cost by eliminates or reduce the need for traditional paper-based processes. The information also become more systematic in order employees want to find or update the latest information for their personal information in the company, applying for leave and get the latest information about what happening in the organization such as bulletin.

Example of HRIS Software

            Employer can use Web-Based Employee Self-Service as one of their ways to empowering their worker. Beside information can be share, the goal clearly determine, employee are given autonomy to make their own decision within the certain limitation and their effort appreciated, employee empowerment also need to be done if the training and sources provided as well as support by other employee or top management in the organization (Fox, 1998). Based on this definition, Web-Based Employee Self-Service help empowering employees if the employee provide with the source of the service and training on the effective way to use the Web-Based Employee Self-Service.

            Employee can get the information or news by themselves. The organization can build a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) website to store and access data. Employee can easily update their personal information, their achievement, performance appraisal and so on will be updated by the HR department, and employee also can apply for leave only on the same HRIS website. All employee need to do is to login in order to access their HRIS account. By having the username and password, employee information and personal record are more secure. Other employee cannot access except the HR team who have the authority to access employees HRIS account.

            The website of HRIS also must be user-friendly. It is also include the website design, features and easy to operate which encouraged employee to always use and update using the HRIS website. The result should be positive implication which is it really make the employee become empowered and save cost by using Web-Based Employee Self-Service. 

References:

Fox, J. (1998) Employee Empowerment: An Apprenticeship Model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_self-service_(web-based_application)

Melcrum Publishing Ltd. (2005) Emerald Article: Employee self-service at RDF. Strategic HR Review. 4(6)