How has the use of HRIS evolved over the past 10 years in organizations, and how might this influence an organization’s evaluations of additional investments in new or updated HRIS functionality?

2. Why is it important to estimate the benefits to be derived from new HRIS functionality before you estimate the costs? If costs were estimated first, how might this change the analysis?

3. Develop an argument for the implementation of an HRIS using a risk reduction strategy and an organizational enhancement strategy.

4. Organizations have traditionally used “employee time saved” as the primary source of benefits to justify HRIS and other types of information system investments. Why can this be problematic? Give several reasons and relate them to conducting a CBA.

5. What makes indirect benefits so difficult to include in a CBA? What techniques might be used?

6. When should benchmarking be preferred to direct estimates of the magnitudes of benefits? When should direct estimates be preferred? Is it appropriate to use both?

7. Why does average employee contribution offer a better estimate of the contribution of individuals to an organization than total compensation (wages, incentives, and benefits)?

8. What are the factors you would have to use in calculating a cost-benefit ratio to support a decision to purchase a new HRIS when the organization already has an HRIS that was acquired 10 years ago?

Be sure to mention the factors that would comprise the costs, direct and indirect, and the benefits, direct and indirect, of the current system versus the proposed system.