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Personnel
Information at Your Fingertips
By
Gary Fung
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On
19 April 2001, the new Banner Human Resources (HR) System was
launched. It replaced the old Personnel Record System that had
been in use since 1991. The new system has many advantages over
the old one.
Being one
of the modules in the CityU Administrative Information Management
System (AIMS), the Banner HR System fully integrates with other
modules such as the Student module and the Alumni module. As the
personal data can be shared among these modules, data redundancy
is therefore eliminated to achieve better data integrity. Furthermore,
staff movement is reflected immediately in the other modules.
This integration has indeed provided the University with an infrastructure
for better data management of the administrative systems as well
as the executive information systems.
The new Banner
HR system is strong in position management. It allows better maintenance
on the availability of position data and budgeting information,
such as by keeping track of the filled and vacant positions.
The functions
provided to the University community are all Web-based and can
be accessed simply by choosing the “Personnel Info”
icon on CityU Intranet homepage (located near the top, next to
“Academic Info”). Then, select AIMS to login. There
are essentially two groups of functions: one for individual staff
members and the other for Heads of departments and departmental
administrators. In the first phase, the functions provided to
the individual staff members are as follows:
Additional
functions will be released in the near future. Plans are already
in place to provide on-line leave application function in the
second phase. It will allow individual staff to input leave applications
directly on the Web, which will then be on-line approved by departmental
administrators. Please watch out for the announcement on the new
functions that will be available soon.
