The Practice of HRIS Applications in Business Organizations in Jordan: An Empirical Study

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the extent of the applications of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) being practiced in Jordanian business organizations. The study is based on primary data collected through a structured questionnaire from the HR personnel of 236 out 275 of shareholdings companies. The results indicate that the extent of HRIS being practiced is considered to be moderate. This implies that there are some variations among business organisations in terms of their level of implementing of HRIS applications. The results also showed that the extent of HRIS applications being practiced were found varied among business organizations based on their type of business and length of time in business. However, there were not found varied due to their size of business.

Keywords: HRIS applications, HRIS practice, Business organizations, Jordan