A Dissertation Submitted in Partial fulfillment for Award of Degree of Master of Human Resource Management (MSc-HRM) of the Mzumbe University
Human Capital Management Information System (Lawson Version, 9) as a software helped the employees‟ information to be kept safely such as their responsibilities, salaries, retirement and compensation. As today‟s organisations are more strategic occurrence of HCMIS helped them to expand and compete with others and fulfill their organisational goals. The purpose of this was to examine the challenges of Human Capital Management Information System (Lawson, Version 9) in local government authorities as it helped better performance in local government authorities. More specifically the study sought to find out types of data stored in Lawson; explore if the employees are competent in using Lawson; investigate the problems of using Lawson in local government authorities and identify factors influencing the use of Lawson. The objective of this study was, to find out whether employees were satisfied with existence of HCMIS (Lawson version 9), to find if the employees were well educated of HCMIS, if there were strong implementation strategies of HCMIS and to find out the challenges of implementing HCMIS. In the study a case study design was used. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative data. Purposive sampling and random sampling were used to obtain 64 employees which were 20% of all employees as a sample. Primary and Secondary data were applied during research findings. Literature review from different scholars was used to support this study through illustrating various concepts of HCMIS (Lawson, 9). Also the study made use of research questionnaires, and interview to collect data from the population. Descriptive statistics and SPSS were used for data analysis. Based on findings, it was found that alternatives mechanism should be employed to improve performance of HCMIS (Lawson Version, 9) in LGA‟s. The study recommends that HCMIS (Lawson, Version 9) is very important but more training to improved its utilization could be adopted in local government authorities.