Electronic Human Resource Management: Transformation of HRM?
Though the academic interest in e-HRM has clearly risen – as several special issues in international academic journals show – understanding of the phenomenon is still rather limited, the basic consequences of the “electronization” of HRM are still not well understood at present.
Abstract
Recent research on the international adoption of electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM) shows that both the number of organizations adopting e-HRM and the depth of adoption within these organizations are continually increasing. In the interim, e-HRM constitutes a well-established and still rapidly progressing practice. Though the academic interest in e-HRM has clearly risen – as several special issues in international academic journals show – our understanding of the phenomenon is still rather limited. In particular, the basic consequences of the “electronization” of HRM are still not well understood at present. Concerning these technology triggered changes of HRM, implicitly there are two antagonistic views among scholars which could be called the automation view and the transformation view.