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Describe The System Solution To This Problem
Describe The System Solution To This Problem
The technology Plan international selected was a cloud based HR system from SAPs success factors as
well as on premises software from SAP. This included personnel administration and organization
management software.
Question 5: How did these systems improve decision-making. Give examples of two decisions
improved by Plain’s new systems.
The new human resources systems have the updated information on the systems. So it helped
Plan to make quick decision in any critical situation. These system provide a faster and easy way
to find any information about the entire workforce by showing immediately how many people
are working and what skills they possess and what are the job responsibility when they work in
the field. Two examples:1.By using SuccessFactors and SAP human resources software, Plan
staff could identify and dispatch relief workers to disaster areas within hours. When Typhoon
Haiyan struck the Philippines in November 2013, Plan specialists were on the scene within 72
hours.2.Assembling and analyzing data from employee performance reviews, including
performance-based salary calculation, used to take up to six months. Now all it takes is the press
of a button.
Describe the problem faced by Plan International. What people, organization, and technology
factors contributed to this problem? The problem Plan International was originally faced with an
organizational problem finding people with the appropriate skills and experience in medical aid,
child protection, education, and shelter management to provide the necessary services. People –
The people contributing to this problem were the people within the Human Resources
department. Their inability to quickly find the necessary aid workers severely hindered their
ability to help in a timely fashion. Organization – Their problem came from a breakdown in the
business process of finding a qualified individual within Plan with the necessary set of skills to
help the affected areas. Technology – Plan was faced with having to manually sift through their
internal data of 10,000 aid workers across 70 countries in order to find the proper people. This
process included sifting through 30human resource systems, spreadsheets, and paper documents.