The Effect of Emerging Technologies on

HR Practices

The advancement of technology is more challenging, interesting, and

valuable to human work in this era. Due to technological advancement,
companies will need to re-define how they deal with their teams, jobs,
and work environment for future growth.

Now a day, in the corporate world, HR not only does the supporting function, it
becomes more important in working capital and the management. In
technological views, HR is a collection of essential perspectives like aims,
needs, performance.

Technology is having a lot of impact on our life in different aspects. Previously

HR worked on the file maintenance; paper piles consisted of all the documents
of employees. From basic functions like hiring of candidates, onboarding to
reward policy i.e. the employee life cycle and administrative and handling day
to day operations, everything was done manually.

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Now, there is a lot of improvement in these tasks due to advancement of
technology. So, the efficiency and effectiveness of these tasks are gradually
increasing and becoming stronger which makes easy to focus on time and cost
on the major issues, which requires their observation. As a result, it would be
more strategic, proactive and more aligned to the requirements of daily
operations in the organization.

So due to technology, HR’s value is increasing and the results are executed
within a short time period.HR practices maximize the benefits and minimize
the problems. There are lots of technologies which have affected the HR roles.
In my point of view, the major observable perspectives of technology to the HR
are: HRIS, HR Analytics, Cloud Computing, Automation of HR process.

HRIS:HRIS is an organized software system which is defined as a tool to

collect, store and analyze information about the employees in an organization
and it helps to manage HR tasks in effective way which includes hiring,
maintaining documents, payroll processing, compensation, benefits, and
development. So the subsystem of HRIS includes administrations, time and
attendance and development.

Administrations consist of compensation and benefits, labor relation.

Time and attendance consists of payroll interface and development consists of
performance management which makes more accurate and helped in giving
rewards to the personnel.

HRIS also helped to create and maintain employee records, talent

management knowledge, HR planning and forecasting and enhance the levels
of employee satisfaction and loyalty towards the work and organization.

HR Analytics: HR Analytics is also known as People Analytics which

provides tools and methods for analyzing the data about the employees. It also
helps to survey the relationship between the various HR planning and
practices and the effect of employee productivity and HR metrices. It helps to
create better work environment and maximize the productivity. Hr Analytics
help HR department to enhance the HR processes like recruitment, talent
pool, improvement of work environment and workplace. As a result,
productivity will increase and it will create value.

Cloud Computing: The major concern on HR professionals is to bridge the

gap between the HR department and other departments of the organization
because in HR, there is a huge problem in communication; cloud will have a

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profound effect on HR teams at the organization.Cloud computing makes easy
access to its information in the organization.

With the help of cloud computing, HR professionals engage themselves in

learning & development and all the data in the organization is centralized and
business centric so that there will be clear understanding of all the business
functions as it is centralized, all the data can be accessed from anywhere. This
can help for decision making and to enhance the recruitment strategies.

Automation of HR Process: HR is a complex domain and it has lots of

steps. To reduce the complexity in HR domain, the implementation of
technology is becoming more crucial. It helps to eliminate paper work, time
reduction to execute many tasks and HR performance in efficient and effective
way. It focuses on machine learning which helps to screen resumes easily and
onboarding new employees. The development of technology can improve the
quality of work of an executive.

Keywords: HR, Technology, HRIS, HR Analytics, People Analytics, Cloud

Computing, HR Productivity, HR Metrices, Automation, HR Practices.

--Contributed by
Author 1: Chandrima Chatterjee

Email id: chandrimachaterjee@gmail.com

Department: Master in Business Administration in Human Resources

University of Calcutta

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