1、2200 单词, 1.2 万英文字符 , 4600 汉字 出处: Laumer S, Weitzel T. Electronic Human Resources Management in an E- Business EnvironmentJ. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 2010, 11(4):240-250. 原文 ELECTRONIC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AN E-BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Laumer, Sven; Eckhardt, Andreas; Weitzel, Ti
2、m. 1. From HRM to E-HRM The global demographic development, the imminent retirement of the baby boomers generation Frank et al. 2004 and, more recently, changing values, norms and behavioral patterns of Generation Y force firms to open up to new approaches for managing their personnel. Other related
3、 drivers of a need to change the human resources management (HRM) in organizations include the economic downturn over the past three years, increasing scarcity of a variety of skill profiles on the labor market and new ways how people want to balance their work and private life Gueutal 2009. In fact
4、, these trends merely aggravate the challenges in many firms that have long suffered from a scarcity of qualified employees, or talent. And the unavailability of certain candidates in many skill areas has long been identified as a major obstacle to firm success and growth even in times of economic d
5、ownturns Trevor and Nyberg 2008; Laumer and Eckhardt 2010. Talent availability has become a hot topic as globalization has increased both, supply of and demand for certain skills Dolan 2004. The resulting recruiting challenge for firms has been called war for talent Chambers et al. 1998. While almos
6、t all HR executives are boldly aware of the problems of finding talent, especially in the IT domain Luftman and Kempaiah 2008, there is no consistent insight on how to cope with it. At the same time, advances in information and communication technology and the ubiquity of the internet can offer substantially new ways to attract and recruit talent and to organize firms entire HR function. Hence, Electronic HRM (E-HRM) can give a firm a substantial competitive edge in a tough m