Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges

✍ Scribed by Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Chris Brewster (auth.), Carolina Machado, J. Paulo Davim (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Series: Management and Industrial Engineering
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the challenges and changes that new technologies bring to human resources (HR) of modern organizations. It examines the technological implications of the last changes taking place and how they affect the management and motivation of human resources belonging to these organizations. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use organizational technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of human resources management and technological challenges and changes in the field of industry, commerce and services.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Micro-Political Conflicts and Institutional Issues During e-HRM Implementation in MNCs: A Vendor’s View....Pages 1-21
Psychological Contracts in the Age of Social Networks....Pages 23-42
HRM as Challenge for the Top Management of Technology Start-Ups....Pages 43-68
People, Knowledge and Technology: Connecting the Dots from a Social Perspective....Pages 69-97
Comparing HRM Practices for R&D in Business and University Centres....Pages 99-121
Organisational Challenges of Human–Robot Interaction Systems in Industry: Human Resources Implications....Pages 123-131
The Staffing Process in a High-Technology Environment....Pages 133-148
Human Resource Management and the Internet: Challenge and/or Threat to Workplace Productivity?....Pages 149-168
Back Matter....Pages 169-170