iHRIS Manage Features List

Available Now (Version 3.0)

Position Management Module

  • Create an organizational structure that includes multiple departments, offices and facilities, and geographical locations
  • Create a job structure that includes:
    • Cadres, for classifying types of health workers
    • Job classifications, for standardizing broad categories of jobs
    • Salary grades, for assigning jobs to salary bands
    • Jobs with standard titles, codes and descriptions
  • Create multiple positions for each job, each with a unique position code, department, supervisor, and office, facility or geographical location
  • Record multiple salary sources for each position
  • Discontinue positions when they are no longer needed
  • Generate a list of all positions or filter the list to show only open, filled or discontinued positions

Job Applicant Module

  • Add information about an applicant for an open position, including name, identifications and contact information
  • Complete a standard application form for the applicant
  • Record employment history including past employers, positions, job responsibilities and salary history
  • Record educational history including names of institutions, degrees attained and dates of graduation
  • Review applicants for a position
  • Record interview notes, including dates of interviews, names of interviewers and comments
  • Record notes about the decision whether to hire the applicant
  • Make a job offer, which converts the applicant to an employee

Employee Module

  • Create an employee record, including the employee's name, nationality and geographic area of residence
  • Assign the employee to a position and record the starting date and salary
  • Record identifications, such as a driver's license number or passport number
  • Record the employee's marital status, date of birth, gender and number of dependents
  • Record up to four contacts or addresses for the employee, including work, personal, emergency and other contacts
  • Add basic competencies and language skills
  • Record special payments, such as a benefit or allowance, that are separate from the employee's salary
  • Record the employee's educational and employment history
  • Create an application by the employee for any open position
  • Record a change in position with accompanying salary changes and maintain the employee's position history with the organization
  • Record salary changes and maintain the employee's salary history
  • Record notes that are retained in a log organized chronologically
  • Update any employee information and maintain a history of all updates
  • Record termination of employment, including the end date and reason for departure

Reporting Module

  • Generate staff directories, including home contacts, emergency contacts and a staff salary list
  • Generate lists of offices and facilities, including contact information
  • Generate position lists, including open positions
  • Create reports or statistical charts of aggregated data from the system
  • Filter all reports by geographical location, office or facility, job classification, job title, date or gender
  • Export report data in Excel-compatible, HTML or XML formats
  • Convert reports to formatted PDFs suitable for printing

Search

  • Search for employee or job applicant records

Data Security and Administration

  • Install, configure and disable modules to customize system features
  • Issue password-protected logins to allow only authorized users to access the data
  • Assign roles to users to control who can enter, update and generate reports on data
  • Enforce data correction by authorized data managers to ensure data integrity
  • Log username, data and time when data are entered or changed for auditing purposes
  • Create and update standard data lists to create selection menus for data entry

Offline Support

  • Offline desktop support for locations without Internet access

Currently in Development (Version 3.1)

  • In-service training management module for tracking employee requests and completions of training programs and recording competencies and continuing education credits earned through trainings
  • Wizard for creating and saving customized reports

Planned for Development (Version 3.2)

  • Employee photo upload and display
  • Competency model module for assessing, searching and reporting on employee competencies
  • Guest access to enable web-based job application submission
  • Employee self-service access
  • Additional roles added to support supervisor use of the system
  • Customizable roles
  • Import and export data functions built in
  • Data synchronization with offline versions

Requested (Not in Development)

  • Internationalization support for non-English or multilingual implementations
  • Dual data entry, error checking and reporting to enforce data quality
  • Scholarship management module
  • Peformance management module
  • Benefits management module
  • Payroll management module
  • Pension plan management module
  • Leave management module
  • New employee orientation module
  • Employee scheduling module
  • Document management module for physical personnel records, including document tracking, cataloguing and status
  • Resource planning and approval system for recruitments, transfers, promotions, disciplines and terminations
  • Workplace safety data collection
  • Customizable job applications
  • Generation of organizational charts
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) support for mapping workforce data

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