Web Based Automated Workflow System for Employees' Welfare and Loan Scheme Using Lightweight Methodology

摘要

This paper addresses the daily challenges encountered by employees as it relates to their voluntary contributory welfare scheme in most established institutions, establishments or organizations in Nigeria. We critically examined the challenges of joining as member, amount to save, dividends sharing, assets and liabilities, and also the loan scheme using Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria as our study center. A Web Based Automated Workflow System for Employees Welfare and Loan Scheme was developed, which captured the employees' monthly contributory savings, and other parameters through an interface. Employees' can interact with the system from the comfort of their homes and from anywhere in the world via Internet connectivity. The application is web based and enables functions like online application for loan facilities, checking of total contributions, tracking of loan application status and other services rendered by the respective welfare scheme. The Web Based Automated Workflow System was developed based on light-weight methodology. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), Javascript, Dreamweaver and MySQL were used to realize the interface and Web Based solutions for the Automated Workflow System for Employees Welfare and Loan Scheme. However, the security built into the scheme was not discussed in this paper.