ABSTRACT

The time clocks were used to record the time workers reported to work and left work. Employee clocking systems are time systems used by organizations to accurately record the number of hours worked by each employee every week. Automated staff clocking information system is an automated process that verifies workers identity and captures employee traits with high speed and high levels of accuracy. It maintains the attendance time of workers such that those who work extra hours are compensated through overtime pay. This provided the company owner the actual time worked by the employee and employers paid for actual hours worked by employees. The problem statement of this research focus on inadequacies of the manual time clock system, the problem encountered by the staff reservation section, the impact ofthis software reservation section, the impact ofthis software design is not entirely perfect, the company policy forbids employees from punching or swiping for each other and both employees stand a chance of losing their jobs if caught. The aim of the study is to develop an automated staff clocking information system that would be able to modernize the inherent problems encountered by the staff and improve operational performance of MOUAU staff. The objective of the research study developed a platform for an automated staff clocking information system, build a database structure used to store and keep track of the time and employee records, design a platform that keeps track ofthe time and ensures logical ways to monitor and record an employee’s time, design a platform that clock in and clock out, design' a system that corrects the inadequacies of the manual time clocking system with employee list, create a platform that advances the timekeeping techniques and attendance list, design a platform that displays administrators account. The researcher developed a questionnaire as an instrument for data collection from the respondents. Collected data from the questionnaires was coded, collated, cleaned and analyzed. The application was realized through the adoption of Agile software development method. In this work, the results are obtained by designing a system using PHP programming and MYSQL as the database. The study concluded that there was a statistically significant influence of automated staff clocking information system on operational performance.