Contemporary Issues In Human Resource Management By Indika

According to Azhar (2003) organisational culture is the combination of important assumptions that are shared in common by each members of an organization and are often unstated. Organizational culture is basically made up by two major common assumptions values and beliefs. Values are the assumptions that have been forwarded by the leaders of the organization and considered to be ideals that are desired by all the members of an organization. Beliefs on the other hand are the assumptions about the reality and created by experience. One of the inseparable components of organizational culture is the values that are shared and held by the individuals of an organization. Hofstede (2006) on the other hand explains the organizational culture in the form of onion that contains a number of layers and values that make the core of the organizational culture. According to Azhar (2003) corporate culture can determine the success of the organization, in other words, good companies are disti...

Today the Information technology made widespread effects on almost every aspect of our society. It has changed the way we live our lives and do our jobs. It also make a profound impact on organisational processes, including those in Human Resource Management and transformed the way that organisations recruit, select, motivate and retain employees (Parry & Tyson, 2011). Continuous innovations in technology will fundamentally change the way HR work is accomplished (SHRM, 2002). The growing use of information technology in human resource has significantly increased the efficiency of HR management activities and processes, increased their speediness and reduced cost. It has created an effective and efficient communication system, employee engagement, talent management, employee development, performance management, learning and development. In addition, the use of HR IT provides value to the organization and raise HR professionals’ status in the organization (Ulrich, 1997). Se...