CHAPTER ONE
1.1
INTRODUCTION
As much as have to receive adequate welfare and entitlements
the personnel database must be maintain effectively. The personnel database is the comprehensive
information update of employees under a particular employee at a particular
time. The maintenance and management of
employee information has bee a big problem in the Nigerian society workers
denied of their primary and secondary entitlements and the most sad aspect of
inadequacy in the maintenance of employee information is the erupt of ghost
workers syndrome, this has the greatest thing this laxity in personal database
system has caused in the society. The
problem of promotion is also on offspring of inadequate personnel database
management; who to promote when there is necessity for promotion is always the
problem faced by personnel officers in change of promotion exercise.
Workers have suffered a lot under this
error of ignorance and sheet wickedness in every activity work of life, the
first thing to be observed is always information about the staff involved. This helps to give out desired incentives for
the works, to help them put in their best in their work the non-payment of
salary or in some cases, the delay in payment of salary is always caused by the
problems associated with personnel database.
This work
researched into the operational activities of existing system of maintaining
personnel database in Enugu
state with a view to detecting and solving the problems making it not to work
out smoothly.
1.2
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
The problem caused by poor management and maintenance of
personnel database in Enugu
state is numerous. Th procrastination in
payment of workers salary is a work force badly. Because of the fact that act information of
worker s in the state is not known the state faces the problem of how to
provide incentives for its worker. A lot
of public money is been diverted into private purses due to the problem of poor
information management concerning personnel records.
1.3
PURPOSE OF
STUDY
The main purpose of this study is to provide ever lasting
solution to the current problems facing the Enugu state personnel database maintenance
system through a well computerized design.
1.4
AIM/OBJECTIVES
OF STUDY
The primary aim of this work is to make sure that personnel
database management system of Enugu
State is to serve the
citizen better by producing a new computerized system that will tackle the
problems currently facing it.
The objectives include:
1.
To create a system that will maintain workers records
randomly and give easy and tidy access to the stored record for easy
information retrieval.
2.
To maintain a database that will support sorting and
searching of records automatically
3.
To maintain an internecine database.
1.5
SCOPE OF THE
PROBLEM
This study is carried out covering the totality of personnel
database system in Enugu
state in the areas of quick information retrieval automatic promotion list
generation, ghost workers control and timely salary payment
ASSUMPTIONS
If the new design is completely implemented
the whole problems associated with the existing system will be all solved.
1.6
DEFINITION
OF TERMS
Work force is the personnel strength of the organization.
Welfare is the condition of comfort in an area of work.
System is
a network of interrelated procedures combined to form a unit
Policy is
a plan of actions, aims and ideas, sophisticated, having learnt the ways of the
world and having lost natural simplicity.
Implementation: carry an undertaking agreement promise into
effect.Information age: The current age of information technology around the globe.