HRM Literature Review: Analysis of 5 Articles - HRMT20024, T2 2019

This report presents a comprehensive literature review of five peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on various aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM). The articles cover a range of topics, including the evolution of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) and its impact on HRM practices, the role of teamwork and organizational innovation within the HRM context, the significance of industrial relations in fostering employee-employer relationships, the importance of HR planning for strategic goals, and the challenges of work design in a global environment. Each article is summarized, outlining the research objectives, methods, findings, and conclusions, providing a detailed analysis of the key concepts and their implications for effective HRM practices. The review aims to enhance students' research, analysis, and referencing skills, and to demonstrate critical thinking and written communication skills.

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Table of Contents
Article 1: Evolution of HRM.....................................................................................................2
Article 2- Context of HRM........................................................................................................4
Article 3- Industrial Relation.....................................................................................................6
Article 4- HR planning...............................................................................................................7
Article 5- Work design challenges in a global environment......................................................8

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Article 1: Evolution of HRM
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Johnson, R. D., Lukaszewski, K. M., & Stone, D. L. (2016). The evolution of the field of
human resource information systems: Co-evolution of technology and HR
processes. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 38(1), 28.
The article focuses on The Evolution of the Field of Human Resource Information
Systems: Co-Evolution of Technology and HR Processes. This articles aims on the human
resource information system (HRIS) field to enhance the knowledge that helps to progress the
business process. The relationship between evolotion of technology and HR department
linked with the technology is addressed (Bailey 2018). The web- based systems, cloud- based
systems and ERP are main platforms where the HRM is examined for fficiency in market
world.
Outline of research objective
 To analyse the effectiveness of HRIS in HRM
 To enahce the market opportunity in the internaltional market.
 To study the impact of information technology in business
 To study the evloion of HRM
 To understand the HR practices related to ERP system, web based systems.
Research question
How the HR practices can be improved through ERp an dweb based systems?
What impact does HRIS have on HRM of an organisation?

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Outline of the method
The method which is used to study this aticle is primary and secondary data. The
survey and interview have helped to examine the effcetiveness of evolution of technology in
HRM. The secondary data is collected from different journals and research paper articles
(Bratton 2017).
Discussion of the findings
The article finds that with introduction of HRIS in HRM, the technology support have
enhanced its approach to all fields of HRM where information can be reached easily. The
ERP and web based data base systems helps to store large amount of data that can help the
organsiation to evaluate the financial data, profit of the organisation is calculated through
large and accurate information proceesed in the ERP (Brewster 2016). The HR practices in an
organsiation helps to understand the requirements of the organisation. The evolution of HRM
have occurred when the technology have stepped in the market and improved the HR
function through effective data collection methods from diffreent departements and store din
ERP to evaluate the outcoem of different processes in the organisation.
Summary of the conclusions
The article concludes that with the introduction of HRIS, the organisation’s human
resource management have improved its efficiency in evaluation of data and improved the
productivity of the business. The data that every organisation can access helps the
organisation to keep track of all the information and error can also be found and corrected
(Budhwar 2013). The departmental functions can be addressed in one platform that helps the
organisation to advertise the products by acknowledging the concerns of all processes in the
organisation.

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Article 2- Context of HRM
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Fay, D., Shipton, H., West, M. A., & Patterson, M. (2015). Teamwork and organizational
innovation: The moderating role of the HRM context. Creativity and Innovation
Management, 24(2), 261-277.
The article focuses on the Teamwork and Organizational Innovation: The Moderating
Role of the HRM Context. The article entitles to understand the business roles and improve
the knowledge for increasing the effectivity of team work. It focuses on creating innovation
in the business through understanding the problems in the organisation (Collings 2013). This
articles studies two organised groups; production staff group and administrative group. The
aim is to study that whether they impact in innovation of the organsiation.
Outline of research objective
 To analyse the effectiveness of teamwork that impacts the HRM of an organisation
 To examine the importance of innovation in the business
 To understand the effect of HR practices in productivity
Research question
What innovations can help the organistaion to improve the productivity?
How the profitability can be enriched with team work?
What is the benefit of training to work in a team?

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Outline of the method
The method used for this article is both primary and secondary data. The primary data
is collected through survey and statistical analysis of data collected. The secondary data is
collected through different journals and articles which helped to observe the impact of team
work in the organisation.
Discussion of the findings
The article finds that with effective team work, other processes of HRD can be
benefited. The team work mainly helps in improving the productivity and enhances quality
work among the team. As team enhances innovation for creative idea. This promotes higher
innovation level in the organisation (Brewster 2017). The findings states that HRM system is
more facilitating in obtaining efcetive team work and communication. The team work always
rsults in enhancing other functions of production team and checks for quality of work in the
organsiation.
Summary of the conclusions
The article concludes that with introduction of team work helped the organisation to
be benefited with innovative ideas. The organisation have different HR practices that
provides accuracy and improves efficiency and proficiency in the organisation. The context
of HRM is to improve productivity level and profitability of the organsiation. This is enriched
when the organsiation improves the key aspects of employees by working in a team
(Kavanagh 2017). They can strenthen the team with their innovation and advancing their
knowledge that can help the rogansiational growth. The team work also helped the
organisation in gaining competitive advantage. So the team work have helped to understand
the context of HRM which aims to improve the overall activities in the organisation.

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Article 3- Industrial Relation
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Paşaoğlu, D. (2015). Analysis of the relationship between human resources management
practices and organizational commitment from a strategic perspective: Findings from
the banking industry. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 207, 315-324.
The article focuses on Analysis of the Relationship Between Human Resources
Management Practices and Organizational Commitment from a Strategic Perspective:
Findings from the Banking Industry. The article aims to evaluate the effects of human
resource management practices in the organisation. The article helps to understand the
correlation between variables such as training, job security, performance evaluation and
human resource management system (Messersmith 2013). The industrial relation is the
establishment of healthy relationship between workers and management. In an organisation,
the industrial relation is important for providing employee benefits. This aims to secure the
workforce and enable effective communication between employees and employers.
Outline of research objective
 To understand the relationship between management and workers.
 To enhance effective communication between employee and employer
 To analyse the effectiveness of industrial relation in an organsiation
 To promote quality workers in the organsiation.
 To enable co-operation and cooperation among people working in the organisation.
 To increase the productivity of the organisation.
Research question
How to establish healthy relationship between employee and employer?

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How to increase the productivity of the organisation by enabling effective industrial relation?
Outline of the method
The method included in the study of the article are both primary and secondary data.
The primary data is collected by surveying on employees and employers. the employee and
employer is asked several question reagarding benefits given to the employee (Kehoe 2013).
The employer is asked for several duties and responsibilities for providing all the facilities
and benefits to the employees. The secondary data is collected from journals and articles.
Discussion of the findings
The article finds that the industrial relation helps to enable to solve conflicts that rise
between employees and employers. The industrial relation helps to provide the benefits to the
employees. It aims in establishing healthy realtionship between employee and employer. The
impact of industrial relation helps in effective communication between the employees and
management (Hosie 2013). The trade unions in the organsiation promotes collective
bargaining to meet the demands of employees.
Summary of the conclusion
The article concludes that with effective industrial relation in an organsiation, the way
of managing workforce is changed. This has highly effective when trade unions have a play
in the establishing healthy relationshi between management and emploees. The industrial
relation strenthens the relationship and promotes communication that can improve the
productivity. As effcetive communication can help in avoiding conflicts and solving the
issues of the employees (Kramar 2014). Management promote all benefits and value the
employees for increasing the loyalty towards the employee and organsiation. As employees
are the assets of the organsiation, they must be valued and fulfill their demands and reward
them to increase the performance of the employees.

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Article 4- HR planning
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Farrell, R. (2017). The chief learning officer: A model role for integrating HR and strategic
planning functions in libraries. Library Management, 38(6/7), 380-392.
The article focuses on The chief learning officer: A model role for integrating HR and
strategic planning functions in libraries. The article aims on effective HR planning in an
organisation for developing strategic goals (Sparrow 2017). The HR planning aims to have
integrated human resource and develop startegic planning and enhace accuracy in budgeting
to minimize cost (Noe 2017). The pusrpose of the paper is to enahce the study of HR
planning to gain competiive advantage in the global market.
Outline of research objective
 To understand the problems in the organsiation which needs HR planning.
 To enhance the knowledge on HR planning for competitive advantage
 To impact of HR planning in different departments that enrich integration of
operations.
Research question
How HR planning impacts the organisation?
What planning is needed for establishing competitive advantage?
Why HR planning is important in the organisation?
Outline of the method
The method used in this article study are both primary and secondary data. The primary data
is collected by surveying HR managers for effective establishment of HRM. It checks for

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developing a plan that can help to increase the productivity of the organisation. The
secondary data is collected through different journals and articles that enables to understand
the importance of HR planning.
Discussion of the findings
The article finds that the human resource planning is effective for the organsiation as it
identifies current and future needs of the organisation. Human resource planning helps to link
the human resource management and develops strategic planing for competitive advantage
(Nickson 2013). The managers are trained properly for managing effectively different human
resource functions. This enables increase in productivity as training helps to hone the skills
and knowledge of human resource policies and responsibility.
Summary of the conclusions
The article concludes that HR planning have increased the knowledge of employees and
productivity of the business. It checked the future demands of the organsiation that helped to
plan for future needs. This has enabled training programs for HR managers that can result in
recruiting employees effectively, and training the employees understanding the job role. They
have understood the compensation policies of an organsiation and rewards the employees for
effective performance. They have enhaced their role in evaluating the erformance and
appraise the employees for betterment of the employees.