Human Resource Management in Digital Age

Abstract

Technology has its presence in every aspect of our life and thus we are very comfortable working with it and making it work for us to make our work a little less onerous. In this this era of digitization, organisations are becoming technology driven too making all the functions take the best of technology to achieve the objectives of the organisation. Human resource management being a significant part of the organisation is adopting technology in its work and making most of it to provide best services not just to be able to achieve organisational goals but also to keep its clients i.e. employees satisfied and motivated. Human resource management as a function has gone through numerous stages to reach to a level where it presently stands, from just being personnel administrative department to sharing strategic intent with the organisation it has now been recognised as a very influential department and thus soaking in all the technology available for it to function well. Human resource management in itself has diversified functions – operational, transactional and transformational. All these functions have adopted specific technologies to be able to play equal with other departments. E-HRM is not only beginning to be a trend in the organisations but also becoming a necessity to be able to achieve goals, keep the cost low, increasing productivity, keeping track of employees, their needs and their performance, reaching out to prospective candidates in a way they relate the most and are mostly connected to all the time i.e. digital platform, maintaining humongous data about the employees and maintaining a free flow of communication in the organisation. Thus HRM in digital era has scored technology to be able to focus more on strategic part of the HRM leaving most of the administrative work to technology.