Human Resource Management and New Web Technologies

Abstract

“The Internet is irrelevant for human resource management,” wrote one academic in a scathing review of my 1997 proposal for a book on human resources (HR) and the Web. The other reviewers were lukewarm at best, and the book never saw the light of day. A decade later, technophobes aside, most HR practitioners take the World Wide Web for granted. Far from being irrelevant, Web technology now encompasses applications as wideranging as rostering and work allocation, payroll, budgeting and costing, performance appraisal, “onboarding” information (for new hires), employee handbooks, and the handling of job vacancies.