There are a variety of reasons why an organisation needs to collect HR data, these could be:• To satisfy legal requirements • To provide relevant information in decision making • To keep a record of Contractual arrangements • Keeping contact details of employeesGovernment departments’ including HMRC can demand information from the business on how many people are employed, what they are paid, what they have been paid over a number of years and how many hours they have worked. The working time regulations and national minimum wage act each require specific records relating to hours of work and pay details.An organisation collects absence data, which is collected and inputted into a HR system, once the data is in the system we can pull off reports which can show trends in sickness, by division or department and analyse the data to see if there are any patterns and look at trigger levels.An organisation can collect Performance Appraisal s and use the data from these forms to see how many appraisals were completed by division or department and see if there are any learning and development needs within the organisation.There are many methods of storing records they can be stored in filing cabinets which make for ease of access when trying to look at a paper trail on something, records can be on an online database which makes the information easily accessible and you can pull data off the database and create reports which can be run to show certain figures, e.
g. sickness, training records, etc.
