Identifying and Prioritizing the Determinants of e-HRM: an AHP Approach.

This paper aims to identify and prioritize the various dimensions of electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM) using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which enables the Indian IT industry to cope up with the technology advancements in human resource management (HRM).This paper focuses on how e-HRM can be successfully implemented in IT industry. This paper employs a detailed literature review to identify the drivers of e-HRM in Indian IT industry and uses AHP to reveal their priority wise ranking. This study identifies eight factors of e-HRM under three main criteria and finds out their relative importance. Overall, organizational factors are found to be the most important factors, followed by environmental factors and e-HRM related factors, respectively. The study is limited to Indian IT sector. The applicability of results to other geographical boundaries is questionable. Also, there may be dependencies among criteria and sub-criteria which may be ignored. The findings of this paper are useful for the IT firms as they can incorporate e-HRM considering the relative importance of the factors of e-HRM and hence, increase their competitiveness. The findings are also useful for researchers and academicians. e-HRM has been a topic of interest for many researchers, but there is a lack of study of prioritization of e-HRM determinants in IT sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]