Digital Human Resource at Work: how e-HRM Shapes Modern Organizational Performancenizational Performance in IT sector Organizations.
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Electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM), Organizational Ambidexterity, Employee Performance, Organizational PerformanceAbstract
This research seeks the nexus and the interdependency of e-HRM (Electronic Human Resource Management), organizational ambidexterity, employee performance, and overall organizational success in major IT organizations located in twins cities i.e. Rawalpindi and Islamabad Pakistan. Data was collected by cross-sectional research design from 532 employees working in IT organizations. Obtained results show that use of Electronic Human Resource Management (e-HRM) has positively linked with Organizational ambidexterity that ultimately increased the employees as well as organizational performance. The research has the practical implications for the decision-makers and leadership a complete roadmap for the understanding of how e-HRM is incorporated into the vision of modern business distant technologies.
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