systems is crucial in bringing the ideals of this framework to fruition. This process will further consolidate Nigeria’s march to sustainable development particularly in the banking sector. This is because, efficient and proper management of information systems within the HR circuit is essential in ensuring that information is properly managed, stored, retrieved and dispersed to stakeholders, whose interests need to be protected for sustainability. Thus, rapid and instantaneous dissemination of information and sharing is a hotbed of greater stakeholder criticism and clamour, which can be accelerated by new media. These concepts are central to sustainable HRIS. Given the recent clamour from stakeholders for greater stakeholder engagement/involvement in sustainability issue, local capacity building, ethical banking and stakeholder accountability by banks, it is significant to explore how HRIS can be used to bring about more harmonious corporate-stakeholder interface. As argued here, this is crucially important to advancing sustainability in Nigeria given the imperative of the Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principle, which was conceptualised to help bring sustainable development in the banking industry in Nigeria. This process will further consolidate Nigeria’s march to sustainable development. Therefore HRIS – mediated by new media – facilitates the management of information systems in order to make more proactive and effective decision regarding sustainability. Thus, accessibility of information including its dissemination and sharing that is highly necessitated by new media will engender democratised and more sustainable system to contend the issue of sustainable development in the banking sector (Achua, 2008). Apart from this, depositors (stakeholders) will immensely benefit from a reworked HRIS that is attentive to the challenges of sustainable development and more open and sustainable banking system.
HRIS and Sustainable Banking
Central to sustainable development is HRIS as this study shall argue. In this direction, in