Title: Benefits, barriers and risks – the role of technology in e-HRM implementations in public sector organisations: evidence from Bangladesh

Authors: Mushfiqur Rahman; Erhan Aydin

Addresses: Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK ' Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Usak University, Usak, Turkey; IPAG Business School Paris, Paris, France

Abstract: This paper aims at understanding the role of technology in e-HRM implementations by considering the focus of human agents and structural constraints of technology. In this respect, benefits-barriers-risks of technology is deemed to create a framework that demonstrates agency and structure relations based on the structuration theory of Giddens. A qualitative study was conducted. The data came from 30 semi-structured interviews that come from two different ministries in Bangladesh. The findings demonstrated that the focus of a human agent in implementing e-HRM and structural constraints of technology are the key findings based on the structuration theory of Giddens. The main contribution of this research is to bring a new perspective to e-HRM as considering barriers and risks of technology in addition to the benefits of it through adopting structuration theory. Thus, this research makes a comprehensive contribution to the e-HRM field that focuses on only benefits.

Keywords: structuration theory; e-HRM; Bangladesh; public sector organisations; technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2020.107976

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2020 Vol.20 No.3/4, pp.252 - 268

Received: 31 Oct 2017
Accepted: 03 Mar 2019
Published online: 01 Jul 2020 *

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