THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON NURTURING HR FUNCTIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to examine the “The Role of Information Technology on Nurturing HR Functions and Productivity An Empirical Study of HR Department of Sui Southern Gas Limited (SSGC)” The aim of this study was to find the correlation among the five primary Functions of Human Resource and Information Technology. The reason behind to choose this topic because of information technology made their presences in that area as well as expands in wider range of IT applications and Sui southern gas company has follows this practice in current situation. Methodoiogy/Desiga/Approach: The nature of this study is descriptive and this research is divided into two parts: first one the theoretical part and second the statistical analysis. For theoretical part the literature review present and given review on impact on HR functions in support for analytical proven a researcher conduct a survey on 48 respondents as the middle and top level management staff from the Sui southern gas company working in Karachi Pakistan. Findings: The model is good fitted that is confirmed from the findings to facilitate the two out of five hypotheses. The data was gather from the questionnaire and the results indicates that the training & development, compensation & benefits, recruitment & selection, employee laws & relation, and employee health & safety were positively correlated and level of significant with information technology . The outcomes of regression analysis showing that the HR function has Leaned by information technology and also the compensation & benefits and employee health & safety was the strong predicator of information technology. Conclusion: Every company use widely information technology systems in the human resource functions these days because HRIT has great contributed in case of operational, strategically and transformation level. This study helps for the researcher in future in terms of theoretical as well as practical implication for the human resources specialist.