Technology Revolution in HR for Business Competence

Human Resource Management seeks to build and maintain an environment for quality excellence, to better enable the work force to achieve the company's quality and operational performance objectives. Global competition is putting more and more pressure on managers to make faster and better business decisions. Investments in Information Technology are often touted as a critical means of speeding up and improving management decision making. Yet, it has proved difficult to realize the potential of Information Technology investments. This is particularly in Human Resource (HR), though it has been proved that HR is a prime candidate to benefit from information technology. Information technology has been cited as a critical driver of HR’s transition from a focus on administrative tasks to strategic business partner. This strategic role not only adds a valuable dimension to the HR function but also changes the competencies that define the success of HR professionals. This paper will focus on answering the question that “How the introduction of information technology in the field of HR has brought about a new transformation and has helped to develop competitive advantage”.