HRIS Protoype Proposal...accepted!

Finally! After the loooooooooong wait, we finally had our VERY FIRST consultation on our proposal yesterday. For several times we waited to have our consultation and failed. We have a very perfect timing, because when it's already our turn Sir Gamboa's time for consultation will also end. Great..just great..!

Just like yesterday morning, we waited for the other groups-- who arrived earlier than us -- to finish their consultation. Just when the group before us finished their consultation, since we were the next, we went inside Sir Gamboa's office. What welcomed us inside the office was the sign "Please don't disturb." Although downhearted, one of my groupmates couragely asked if what time would he (Sir Gamboa) continue the consultation but Sir just pointed to the sign. We went out of the office thinking how cruel the timing is..hehehe.

In the afternoon, Tina and I attended our OR class. After our class our group planned to research on how to make a cable tester --since my groupmates on HRM are also my groupmates on DataComm. Lucky we were because during the afternoon Sir was already available for consultation and there were only few groups waiting. We were entertained first..Yipeee..! "At last we will have our FIRST EVER CONSULTATION" my mind murmured..hehe.

During the consultation I was very nervous because Sir kept on giving corrections on our Introduction, but as the pages went by and Sir saw our HRIS proposed prototype for the company we adopted...we were so happy to hear from him that our proposal was quite fine. And here's another...he graded it 2.5..whew..! Our proposal was graded immediately and according to him we were the first group to be graded because other groups were just 75% completed or a percent completed but not really graded. Hmmm..it's worth the wait...heheh..

But Sir told us that if we want to increase the grade of our proposal we should apply the things that he had suggested. And since we wanted to have a higher grade, we will implement Sir's suggestion. We started making it immediately and as usual, we went home at dawn-- 1:00 am--. hehe..

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Personnel Mngt and HRM

1."Personnel management is often considered an independent function of an organization. Human resource management, on the other hand, tends to be an integral part of overall company function. Personnel management is typically the sole responsibility of an organization’s personnel department. With human resources, all of an organization’s managers are often involved in some manner, and a chief goal may be to have managers of various departments develop the skills necessary to handle personnel-related tasks."

-N. Madison >> http://www.wisegeek.com/is-there-a-difference-between-human-resources-and-personnel-management.htm

Critique:
This definition implies that Personnel Management is under the scope of Human Resource Management which is precisely correct.

2. "Human Resource Management is based in the efficient utilization of employees in achieving two main goals within a corporation or other type of organization. The first goal is to effectively make use of the talents and abilities of employees to achieve the operational objectives that are the ultimate aim of the organization. Along with realizing the goals of the organization, Human Resource management also seeks to ensure that the individual employee is satisfied with both the working environment and the compensation and benefits that he or she receives."

- Malcolm Tatum >> http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-human-resource-management.htm

Critique:
HRM indeed does not only concern the development of the corporation but also with its employees. Malcolm has defined HRM very well.

3. "The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations."

-Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD >> http://www.managementhelp.org/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm

Critique:
I think that one of the functions of HRM is also to maintain good relationship to the employees as well as the employees to their co-employees. Although "dealing with performance issues" has been mentioned, attitude towards co-workers is still different.

4."Personnel Management, part of management concerned with people at work and their relations within a firm. The main functions of the personnel manager usually include staff recruitment, training, and welfare. The term personnel management is somewhat misleading in that it is usually line managers who manage the work force, while personnel managers provide a mainly supportive and advisory service."

- MSN Encarta, Encyclopedia Article >>http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762506693/Personnel_Management.html

Critique:
This definition is so helpful, especially to those who are confused about the function of managers/line managers to those of personnel managers.

5. "The part of management that is concerned with people and their relationships at work. Personnel management is the responsibility of all those who manage people, as well as a description of the work of specialists. Personnel managers advise on, formulate, and implement personnel policies such as recruitment, conditions of employment, performance appraisal, training, industrial relations, and health and safety. There are various models of personnel management, of which human resource management is the most recent."

-BNET Business Dictionary >> http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/Personnel+Management.html

Critique:
This definition is an opposite on the first (1) definition. THis definition states that HRM is a model of Personnel Management. This is quite confusing..

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It has been a while since the last time I updated my blog and it bothers me. So now I'm going to inform you about the remarkable things that happened to our group, as well as the development of our proposal, during the past days.

September 24, 2008

We revisited the HRDD of USeP to have our assignment answered..hehe. Maam Marivic is the head of the HRDD so we asked her about her viewpoints in the nature, scope and role of HRM, which she gladly answered. Hmmm..I passed the assignment a bit late because I forgot the date of the deadline.peace..!^^

By the way, on September 24, 2008 we spent our night at McDo..Where we can freely charge our laptops..hehe..We continued making our proposal there. Below are some pics of our night-to-dawn stay there..hehe.

We were still in Jealou's apartment because it's still early.

Jealou and Tina making the paperworks..While Edsa and I with the prototype.

It's time to pack up... 'coz its already 2:22 in the morning. ^^

September 19, 2008

It was Athina's birthday and considered that day as our HOLIDAY. Instead of making our proposal we went to PP (People's Park) and celebrate Tina's birthday. I went home early...as in early in the morning..hehe..I think, it was already 1 in the morning when I arrived at home.hehe..^^

----HAPPY TINA..!-----

Why Happy Tina? Hmm, one of our classmate texted Tina something like this :"Belated Tina...".. We wondered what's belated Tina? you know, belated what?... Well, our classmate really means "belated happy birthday Tina.".. And that started the "HAPPY TINA". bow...

September 16-18,2008

We had our documentation and we also made our HRIS prototype using Microsoft Visual FoxPro. At first, I really thought it would be easy making the prototype but (whew!) I was really wrong..! Hmmm... We spent more than a day making our prototype.

hmm...Look at our face, it's so bright! hehe..

the drafts..

September 15, 2008

As remembered last September 12, 2008 we interviewed Maam Evelyn and we also had some screenshots of their HRIS. The following day, we made partial documentations on our proposal based on their current HRIS. But since we found their HRIS almost complete and functional, we had a hard time thinking what should be enhanced. So we decided to visit their department on the following monday (Sept. 15,2008).

On Sept. 15,2008 we had our interview with Maam Marivic. Maam Marivic referred us to Mr. Delfin A. Garzon (Kuya Jun) who explained to us everything about their HRIS. We were so glad not only because he had clearly defined almost all of the components of their HRIS but also because he allowed us to browse their HRIS (with his guidance).

After examining their HRIS, we discovered that the only defect that their HRIS has, is the reports or the printing of the information. Below is the screenshot of their HRIS Queries, which should print everything that the user has checked. (untitled3.bmp) If an option is checked in the 'Column Result' it should also be printed..and here goes the problem. Because the 'Column Result' doesn't function at all..! We were told that even if you check all of the options, it will still not be printed. We eventually included the functionality of that, in our HRIS Proposal.^^

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Breathing Apparatus please..

We should have made our very first consultation today -- Monday, September 29, 2008-- since Sir Gamboa told us to meet him on that day at 10 am. But unfortunately there were other individuals who arrived earlier than us. Although we came on Sir Gamboa's office exactly on the time he told us to, we still did not have our ever waited consultation. huhuuu..

So we just left our proposal on his table. Hoping that we will have our consultation before the end of the semester and that we can pass this subject. We alotted our time making this proposal to pass..not for us to have an INC or a red shining 5.0 on our passbook.

We still have other subjects to attend that we seem to forget. Honestly, this entire work on HRM is the cause why I seem to have disregarded my other ENROLLED subjects. I really don't intend to disregard them, it's just that ,on my opinion , this subject is demanding too much (no offense meant..).

Well, I'm aware that I am the one who controls everything that I do, and maybe I just don't know how to properly manage my time. And I AM SOLELY TO BE BLAME.

Whoa...! Now I can appreciate blogging... Because I can freely write everything that I wanted to. The disappointments, the anger , the pain...and every emotions that I have. Every feelings that makes me feel like I couldn't breath anymore.
Whoaaaaa......huh!

Finally, I can freely post my pic here..hahhaaha...

This pic was taken on September 24, 2008 ..hmm..September 25, 2008 in the dawn rather..hehehe..I haven't sleep yet...^^

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