HRM 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations

This volume of Advanced Series in Management offers cutting-edge research from Human Resource Management professionals and academics, which engages with the potential opportunities and challenges of digitization in the workplace.
Contributors introduce fresh evidence and innovative ideas on the changing work environment, to help business leaders' shift to the digital mind-set. The book suggests new ways of managing, organizing, and leading a positive social change towards a human-centered organization. For example, a collaboration between HRM and IT, adoption of design thinking, using integrated analytics, and developing new competences.
The book explores this new world for HRM, developing critical insights about three main issues:

• HRM's new role in the 4.0 era
• New job and organization design for the smart economy
• New HRM tools and practices for digital organizations.

HRM 4.0 For Human-Centered Organizations provides both researchers and professionals working in Human Resources Management, Organization Design and Organizational Behaviour with practical guidelines to turn the challenging scenario of Industry 4.0 into a successful transformation for the HRM domain.

This volume consists of 12 chapters on the impact of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), and its increasing digitization of the value chain and the resulting interconnection of people, objects, and systems inside and beyond organizations, on human resource management activities. Scholars and specialists working in human resource management, organizational design, and related fields in Europe, North America, and Australia describe how Industry 4.0 challenges human resource management to provide value for new smart organizations in which work overtakes organizational boundaries and human-machine collaboration offers a new advantages; how the workplace digital transformation requires a shift of traditional human resources practices to support the changing employee-organization relationship, in which employees can work anywhere, do not have an official working time, and can cooperate with people inside and outside organization: and how the human resources department should have a more human-centered approach that supports the implementation of Industry 4.0 in a socially sustainable way. They illustrate the progression from e-HRM (electronic human resource management) to HRM 4.0 and assess the academic and business achievements in the field, as well as recent developments. Chapters discuss the labels of smart industry, fourth industrial revolution, and Industry 4.0; the possible outcomes of adopting e-HRM for sustaining business performance, strategic value, and the distribution of people management activities; the possible role of e-HRM in dealing with the deconstruction of hierarchy; the use of relational e-HRM tools in gig work; the role of human resources managers in high-potential talent identification using talent management information technologies; the use of blockchains, social media, and analytics in human resources; and smart working. Chapters were first presented at the seventh e-HRM Conference. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.--Annotation (c)2019 "(protoview.com)"

Rita Bissola is an Associate Professor of Organization Design and Organizational Behavior at the Department of Economic and Business Management Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy. She has published several articles and contributions on innovation in HRM and organizational creativity in international and national journals and books.  Barbara Imperatori is Professor of Organization Design and Human Resource Management and Director of the International HRM Master’s programme at the Department of Economic and Business Management Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy. Her contributions on e-HRM, creativity, employee engagement and hybrid organizations have been published in numerous reputable journals and books.

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