Human Resource Management in the New World of Work

In this paper, we mainly analyze the impact of the fourth technological revolution on work, and human resource management in general in both positive and negative ways. There are mainly five dimensions of work affected by technology, namely the future of jobs, social protection system, wage and income inequality, job quality, social dialogue and industrial relations. By extension, technology makes a big difference to even the whole Human Resource Management considering increasing efficiency of recruitment, performance appraisal, employee development and decision-making, as well as several drawbacks such as privacy risks and feeling of untrusted, etc.