HR DATA COLLECTION

Recording, Analyzing and Using Hr Information



Recording, Analyzing and Using Hr Information

Introduction

All organizations need current, reliable and complete data about all aspects of the company to make informed decisions about performance and its implementation. Managers and administrators rely on formal and informal means to obtain the data they need to make decisions. Informal information includes rumors and unofficial discussions with colleagues. Personal experience, education, common sense, intuition and knowledge of social and political environment, are part of the informal means of collecting data. From the point of view of decision theory, business organization can be understood as a series of large information networks linking the information needs of decision-making process of each data source. Although they are separated, these information networks overlap and interact.

Data are the elements that form the basis to solve problems or to the formation of judgments. Data is only an index, an objective manifestation, can be analyzed subjectively, i.e. interpretation requires the individual to be able to handle. In itself, each data has little value. The data provide information when they are sorted, stored and interrelated. Data and information are not isolated, isolated information also meaningless. If you require data processing (sorting, storing and relationship) so that they can actually report, information also requires processing so you can make sense. The information presented intentionality, a key aspect that differentiates it from simple data.

The term designates Data1 processing a wide variety of activities carried out both in organizations and social groups, and between people: there are certain volume of initial data or information (on file, expectations or memory) to which other data are added later (more data, alterations, modifications), resulting in a new volume of data or information. Thus, the data processing is the activity that is to accumulate, grouping and cross data into information, or to obtain other information, the same information in another form, to achieve some goal or objective. A fundamental principle is to hold all the data as collected, in their original format. This allows flexibility in the way that data can be processed (i.e. filtered, aggregated, processed), and ensures that all calculations are reproduced from original data with all revisions. Given the considerable investment in data collection and low cost of storage and processing, there is little reason for not holding complete data in its original format. Raw data are those generated by the researcher to find solutions to certain problems, to make correct decisions in their work.

In administrative branches such as: strategic planning, marketing, finance and human resources, raw data are used more frequently. Their advantage is that because they are generated by the researcher, it can control and adapt the most appropriate and accurate for decision-making. Moreover, as this information did not exist before, is a confidential resource of high value to the research enterprise, and that shows a picture of real life business environment which is developing the study. Primary data can be classified into three groups:

Personal

Impersonal

With mixed characteristics

The primary data obtained through personal interviews and ...