In today’s organizations Human Resource is considered as one
of the key resources of business organizations. The transaction
processing layer of MIS in human resource function deals with
routine activities like attendance recording and payroll
calculations. The operational level activities also include
maintaining the employee records which is used as a basis for
strategic layers. With the growing importance of human
resource management and increasing size of the organizations,
maintenance of employee related data and generating
appropriate reports are the crucial aspects of any organization.
Therefore more and more organizations are adopting computer
based human resource management systems (HRMS). This
paper is an attempt to highlights the role of information systems
in Human Resource Management and show how it helps in
taking management decisions related to management function
especially for the top management.