Innovative Technology and Human Resource Management

Introduction

Managing people is the basic objective human resource management department of every organisation. In this context recruiting and retaining of talented human resource is top priority of an organisation. Organisations constantly strive to make sure that the employees are happy and don’t feel to quit at any situations. Modern competitors are interested in reaching out the top talents of rivals by offering good packages and other benefits, so that the employee would feel to leave the company. Modern organisations understand that it is not only the salary influences employees but also the other factors that makes them to be motivated to work for an organisation. Surrounding environment, supervisor-subordinate relationship, non monitory benefits, organisational support, reward and recognition, participatory management and organisations adaptability are the other factors motivate employees towards their job. On the other hand, organisations need to adopt innovative skills and technology to keep the employees updated to the competitive market. To achieve this, companies update themselves to innovative technology.

Technological approach to human resource management aims at building an employee’s team, committed to make the organisation highly competitive. The digital revolution made the human resource managers to adopt innovative technology in-order to make their work easier and to take better decisions. From recruitment to retirement/change of company, an employee has to go through various phases of involvement and activities, which must be tracked by the human resource department. Networking, Job training, and attendance management etc seek technological support. Today many companies offer cloud based solutions to manage the technical and software related issues of human resource management. Thus technology has become the integrated part of human resource management. This theoretical chapter focuses on various issues of technology and human resource management, advices the pros and cons of technology implication in human resource management. The study may guide the governmental and non-governmental organisations to adopt and implement various innovative techniques that make the employees motivated, so that the work productivity increases.