ASHBAUGH, Sam <br/><br/>
Technology for human resources management :  seven questions and answers 

 -  2002 
<br/><br/> Public management is slowly being transformed by information tecnology. Technology today is the driver of new government processes for dealing with citizens and suppliers. But it is also reshaping important functions and processes that only those inside government may care about such as accounting, payroll, and personnel administration. Taken together, the internal and external impact of new technologies is changing the way governments manage and make decisions. This article examines the current state and future trends in human resource management system (HRMS). Such systems are related to a broader "digital government" effort that seeks to apply technology to streamline governemtn processes. The underlying architecture for digital governmetn is the Internet and integrated administrative managemetn systems (which are more commonly known as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems). This article describes the technology and functional features of such systems and focuses specifically on the business benefits provided by the human resource management system (HRMS) components