The HRM field is entering smart businesses where the human,digital and high-tech dimensions seem to increasingly converge, and HRM needsto anticipate its own "smart" future. Technological developments andinterconnectedness with and through the Internet (often called the "Internet of Things") set...

This volume aims to critically reflect on the two-decades of the academic developments in the field of electronic HRM (e-HRM), and to analytically envisage its future developments. In this way, the volume greatly inform researchers, practitioners and university graduates about forthcoming...

Industry 4.0 embodies the three technology-based developmental streams currently available and is widely recognised whether it is viewed as a great step forward or not. Consequently, the interest in the topic of "implementation" regarding Industry 4.0 has grown in recent years. However, data to...

Adoption and AdaptationApplication of the Adoption and Adaptation Phase to Livio; Use; Application of the Use Phase to Livio; Incorporation; Application of the Incorporation Phase to Livio; Line Management Roles, Behaviours and Leadership Styles in the Implementation Process of Self-managing...

Organizations have increasingly been introducing web-based applications for HRM purposes, and these are frequently labeled as electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM). Much is expected of e-HRM in terms of improving the quality of HRM and increasing its contribution to company performance....

Social media have radically shifted the way people relate with each other and with organizations in technology-mediated ways; few areas are being impacted more strongly than Human Resources or Personnel Management. Attraction of candidates, internal communication with employees, communication...

Social media are changing the way businesses interact in technology-mediated ways with most of their stakeholders. Strategically-minded manager s, researchers and students cannot afford to ignore the new ways in which interactions with customers, employees, shareholders, and many other important...

This volume places social innovation between human resource management (HRM) and technology. There is a growing acceptance of the theory that HRM is strategically important for social innovation within organizations. To meet the requirements of globalization, diversity, "war for talent", and...