Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Micro-Political Conflicts and Institutional Issues During e-HRM Implementation in MNCs: A Vendor’s View

   • Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Chris Brewster, Jaakko Mattila

   Pages 1-21

3. Psychological Contracts in the Age of Social Networks

   • Aykut Berber

   Pages 23-42

4. HRM as Challenge for the Top Management of Technology Start-Ups

   • Irina Koprax, Eva-Maria Mayrhofer, Wolfgang H. Güttel

   Pages 43-68

5. People, Knowledge and Technology: Connecting the Dots from a Social Perspective

   • Raky Wane, Maria João Santos

   Pages 69-97

6. Comparing HRM Practices for R&D in Business and University Centres

   • Nola Hewitt-Dundas

   Pages 99-121

7. Organisational Challenges of Human–Robot Interaction Systems in Industry: Human Resources Implications

   • António B. Moniz

   Pages 123-131

8. The Staffing Process in a High-Technology Environment

   • Jordi Olivella Nadal, Gema Calleja Sanz

   Pages 133-148

9. Human Resource Management and the Internet: Challenge and/or Threat to Workplace Productivity?

   • Carolina Feliciana Machado, José Cunha Machado, Maria Clara Sousa

   Pages 149-168

10. Back Matter

    Pages 169-170

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This book focuses on the challenges and changes that new technologies bring to human resources (HR) of modern organizations. It examines the technological implications of the last changes taking place and how they affect the management and motivation of human resources belonging to these organizations. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use organizational technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of human resources management and technological challenges and changes in the field of industry, commerce and services.

• Employee Motivation
• Organization Learning
• Strategic Management
• Sustainable Management
• Technology Behavior Effect
• Workforce Behavior
• Engineering Economics

• School of Economic and Management Department of Management, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

  Carolina Machado

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  J. Paulo Davim

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