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Human Resource Management Practices in the Digital Era

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Digitalization of Human Resource Management (HRM) is revolutionizing the way of HR practices in line with the current Industry 4.0. Back to the history of the HRM, traditional approaches are still relevant to be used; however, it is better to move a step forward by using the digital HR platform in order to be applicable in the marketplace. In order to be in the Digital HRM platform, the organization should be invested as well for the technology, manpower and the strong strategies. Throughout the HRM revolutions, in this current, critical pandemic will force either small or large organizations in tuning their traditional HRM to the digitalization HRM. For instance, the organization came out with strong stages of the HRM Digitalization transformation, re-structuring the organization process and the new perspective of HRM practices. This chapter discusses on how the traditional HRM tunes to the digitalization of HRM and what are the implications behind this transformation. Furthermore, the organization also must be well prepared to jump into this new industrial 4.0 revolution with the digitalization HRM in the workplace.

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    Hafinas Halid, Siti Noorjannah Abd. Halim & Kamalesh Ravesangar

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Halid, H., Halim, S.N.A., Ravesangar, K. (2022). Human Resource Management Practices in the Digital Era. In: Machado, C. (eds) Technological Challenges. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98040-5_5

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