Technological Trends in HR


Figure 1 - Trends in HR and Payroll Technology (hr-gazette, 2017)


Technology is developing at an unprecedented scale. Its effect is visible everywhere, in communications, transportation and automation of industrial processes.  One of the main significant trends touching HR and people in organizations is technology. Technology contains tools, machinery, equipment, work processes, and employee knowledge and skills (Ashish & Kamal, 2013). 

Technology helps people to perform their work more efficiently and accurately. Technology also enables people to connect and communicate with each other across geographic boundaries. This allows people to collaborate from distant locations to form virtual organizations. Workers with different skills could be hired from different nations to work for a company that exists virtually on the Internet.

In some cases, such as industrial robotics technology has replaced manual labor and many people were left jobless. This trend is likely to continue. Most of the jobs are at risk due to mechanization but it has increased the output of the organization. This is called technological unemployment (CIPD, 2017). Research showed that millions of UK employees are at risk of being swapped by robotics. As per the UK financial outlook it was found that 30% of the work force is possibly under threat from the enhancement of Artificial Intelligence in next ten years. (UKEO, 2017) Mainly employees who work for industrial trades will be affected badly.

Technology could also help to recruit the right candidate. Modern data analytics based profiling enables companies to find the most suitable candidate for the job.
Researchers have observed 5 broad technology tendencies affecting HR currently. (Deloitte, 2015)
  1. HR in the Cloud
  2. Analytics
  3. Mobile enabled HR
  4. Systems of engagement
  5. HR Technology Innovation


Figure 2 - HR Technology Trends (Deloitte, 2015)


Conclusion

Technology is not the only answer, investment in improved procedures in staff management are dominant to accomplishing transformation. Cloud, mobile, social explanations and analytics, if applied properly, have the possible to outcome of greater transformation in HR than earlier.

Reference
Ashish & Kamal, 2013. Impact of Technology Advancement on Human Resource Performance. International Journal on Arts, Management and Humanities, II(2), pp. 4.

Andrew, R. A., (2016). Linkedin. [Online] Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/15-current-trends-human-resource-management-rutaihwa-aristides-andrew [Accessed 02nd July 2018 at 04:20pm].

Biro, M.M. (2016). The Impact of Technology on HR and What’s Ahead. [Online] Available at:  www.huffingtonpost.com: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/meghan-m-biro-/the-impact-of-technology-_1_b_9294208.html [Accessed on 02nd July 2018 at 05:52pm]

CIPD, 2017. HR tech revolution: friend or foe?. [Online] Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/podcasts/hr-technology [Accessed 02nd July 2018 at 02:16pm].

Deloitte, 2015. HR Technology Trends 2015.FSC, pp.3.

Elliot, L., 2017. Theguardian. [Online] Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/24/millions-uk-workers-risk-replaced-robots-study-warns[Accessed 03rd July 2018 at 09:30am].

Mello, J. A., 2005. Strategic Human Resource Management. 2nd ed. Mason: South-Western College Pub.

UKEO, 2017. UK Economic Outlook. [Online] Available at: https://www.pwc.co.uk/services/economics-policy/insights/uk-economic-outlook.html[Accessed 03rd July 2018 at 09:35am].

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