DOI: 10.5176/2251-2349_HRMPD13.08
Authors: Paul Higgins and Ian Roper
Abstract: This paper considers the ethical, institutional and organizational contributions that human resource managers can make to developments in information and communication technology (ICT). The key theme that runs throughout the paper is that to avoid being submerged by rapid advances in ICT, human resource (HR) professionals must pursue a transformed ethical and independent credibility that contributes substantively to on-going developments in association, industry and society. The paper stresses the need for HR practitioners to maintain a varied and valued connection with the operational, relational and transformational dimensions of HR while demonstrating initiative and ethical leadership. Empirically, the paper applies a revised operational-relational-transformational framework of HR to critically analyze some of the key initiatives that the two major professional HR associations in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have taken to embrace ICT as they seek to institutionalize their influence.
Keywords: information and communications technology, professional human resource management, operational HR, relationalHR, transformational HR, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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