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The HRM field is entering smart businesses where the human,
digital and high-tech dimensions seem to increasingly converge, and HRM needs
to anticipate its own smart future. Technological developments and
interconnectedness with and through the Internet (often called the “Internet of
Things”) set new challenges for the HRM function. Smartness enacted by HRM
professionals – notions of “smart industries”, “smart things” and “smart
services” – all put new pressures on strategic HRM. Since the 1990s,
organisations have increasingly been introducing electronic Human Resource
Management (e-HRM), with the expectation of improving the quality of HRM and
increasing its contribution to firm performance. These beliefs originate from
ideas about the endless possibilities of information technologies (IT) in
facilitating HR practices, and about the infinite capacity of HRM to adopt IT.
This book focuses on the progression from e-HRM to digital (d-HRM) –
towards smart HRM. It also raises several important questions that businesses
and scholars are confronted with: What kind of smart solution can and will HRM
offer to meet the expectations of the
latest business developments? Can HRM become smart and combine
digitisation, automation and a network approach? How do businesses futureproof
their HRM in the smart era? What competences do employees need to ensure
businesses flourish in smart industries? With rapid technological developments and ever-greater automation and
information available, the HRM function needs to focus on non-routine and
complex, evidence-based and science-inspired, and creative and value-added
professionally demanding tasks.
Price: $123.99
Pages: 384
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
26 August 2017
ISBN: 9781787143166
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning
Researchers from Europe and North America present 12 chapters on electronic human resources management (HRM), focusing on its progression towards smart human resources management in which the human, digital, and high-tech dimensions converge. They consider the concept of electronic human resources management, academic and business achievements in the field, and recent developments. They examine the kind of electronic, digital, and strategic human resources management companies need; what kind of smart solutions human resources management can offer to meet the latest business developments; whether it can become smart and combine digitization, automation, and a network approach; the impact of new technologies on employment management; how businesses futureproof their human resources management in the smart era; the competences employees need to ensure businesses grow in smart industries; and how research in the field should respond to these changes. Chapters discuss the factors driving the adoption of cloud-based human resource information systems; the degree of digital innovation in human resources practices in the Irish hotel industry; the diffusion trajectory of human resources analytics in the US; how a smart workforce management system can create value for an organization; the use of social media in recruitment; the relationship between information technology and strategic and electronic human resources management in manufacturing companies; electronic human resources management in multinational corporations; challenges faced using electronic human resources in Australia; job design challenges in smart industry; the role of human agency in electronic human resources management research; and the effects of digitization on the profession.
Tanya Bondarouk is Professor of Human Resource Management and the head of the department of HRM at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She also works as the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human Resource Management and as the co-editor of the Advanced Series in Management (Emerald Publishers). She has been working on the research area of Electronic HRM, and has edited a number of special issues in international journals on this topic. Her main publications concern an integration of Human Resource Management and social aspects of Information Technology Implementations and appear in the International Journal of HRM, Personnel Review, European Journal of Management, European Journal of Information Systems. Her research covers both private and public sectors and deals with a variety of areas such as the implementation of e-HRM, management of HR-IT change, HRM contribution to IT projects, roles of line managers in e-HRM, implementation of HR Shared Service Centers.
Huub Ruël is Professor of International Business at The Hague Hospitality Business School, director of the International Business and Diplomacy Academy (IBDA) and a research affiliate at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the intersection between international business and international relations in particular on export promotion and diplomacy, competences for international business and on business diplomacy competences and instruments. Furthermore, his research focuses on international human resource management and technology. Huub Ruël publishes in international journals and books and has guest edited several special issues for research journals.
Emma Parry is Professor of Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Westminster Business School, Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Employment Studies and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Emma’s research interests focus on the impact of the changing context on managing people, in particular the influence of technological advancement, national context and demographic change. She is the author or editor of six books, numerous articles in high quality academic journals and speaks regularly at academic and practitioner conferences.
Editorial.
Electronic HRM in the Smart Era; Tanya Bondarouk, Huub Ruёl, and Emma Parry
Chapter 1.
An investigation of the factors driving the adoption of cloud based Human Resource Information Systems by Small and Medium Sized Businesses; Richard Johnson and Kristina Diman
Chapter 2.
Assessing the degree of Human Resource innovation – an exploratory analysis of Irish hotel corporations; Stefan Jooss and Ralf Burbach
Chapter 3.
HR analytics: here to stay or short lived management fashion?; Janet Marler, Felippe Cronemberger, and Carson Tao
Chapter 4.
EHRM systems in support of ‘Smart’ workforce management: An exploratory case study of system success; Kathleen McDonald, Sandra Fisher, and Catherine Connelly
Chapter 5.
Professional and non-professional social networks as a recruitment tool: The impact on job seekers’ attraction and intention to apply; Francesca Mochi, Rita Bissola, and Barbara Imperatori
Chapter 6.
Aligning the e-HRM and strategic HRM capabilities of manufacturing SMEs: A ‘gestalts’ perspective; François L'Écuyer and Louis Raymond
Chapter 7.
Aiming for strategic e-HRM: motives and consequences of e-HRM implementation in a MNC; Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Yuqin Feng, and Olga Rentto
Chapter 8.
e-HRM challenges: an Australian perspective; Arnela Ceric
Chapter 9.
Smart Industry research in the field of HRM: resetting Job Design as an example of upcoming challenges; Milou Habraken and Tanya Bondarouk
Chapter 10.
What about agency in e-HRM research?; Johan Gregeby and Mårten Hugosson
Chapter 11.
The Changing Role of Social Media at Work: Implications for Recruitment and Selection; Peter Holland and Debora Jeske
Chapter 12.
The dis-app-earance of HRM The impact of digitization on the HRM profession; Ineke van Kruining