INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OCEANOGRAPHY (ITO-98) GOA, INDIA 12-16 OCTOBER 1998

The long coast line of India and a vast oceanic realm surrounding it have varied natural resources. Its exploration and exploitation using available technology are highly personnel dependent. The analysis of the manpower and its distribution engaged in Indian Oceanographic sector reveals that aging factor and sparse recruitment has caused the imbalance in inflow and outflow of employees seriously affecting various functional effectiveness. The management philosophy suffers from cult of individualism and 'INTEREST' hierarchy is ill-defined. This calls for a carefully designed Human Resource Information System ( HRIS ). We argue for Information-Technology based hybrid HRIS in oceanography, which is a mix of Centralization-control and decentralization-autonomy having varying levels of management control and flexible levels. The ETHICS, Cultural Values and the concept : Human Assets do not pertain to a realm of 'OWNERSHIP' have been interweaved in the model. Although Human Resource Planning (HRP) is the central issue of the HRIS , the in-built Human Resource Auditing assesses the Strengths , Limitations and Developmental needs of existing human resource in context of Organization's performance. The anomaly between intended and realized human resource strategy is analyzed through Human Resource Accounting. It monitors the Threats and Opportunities as external functions of economic/political/legal/international/ Social parameters which can be transformed in to a meaningful form of value for tactical and strategic decision-making. Dynamic Job design and job-fit , future estimation of category wise shortage / surplus and flexible HRP adaptable to changing conditions are characteristic features of the model. The effectiveness and constraints of the model will be discussed.

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