Evaluating the Practices of Electronic Human Resources Management (E-HRM) As a Key Tool of Technology Driven Human Resources Management Function in Organizations-A Comparative Study in Public Sector and Private Sector Enterprises of Bangladesh

Technology becomes a key wheel of today's corporations and business houses. Managing a big number of human resources in the organizations are becomes more smooth and easier through adoption of technology in human resources management functions with its outfit benefits. Big corporate has been tremendously changed their jacket through adoption of technology in their business and routine strategic management affairs. The Human Resources Management is such cluster and business partner of the organizational management where electronic human resources management called e-HRM is becomes the prime focus in new century around the globe. This study is an effort to assess gap, if any, between the current level of electronic HRM practices and desired level of electronic HRM practices in two different categories of business organizations- public sector and private sector in Bangladesh. Data was collected from the employees, HR Managers, system administration department of 120 organizations of public sector and private sector organizations of Bangladesh. Five scale Likert Questionnaire method was used to collect responses from the respondents. A current level of overall e-HRM practices index was computed by adding all the items of the questionnaire. Statistical technique mean score, t-test, Spearman's rank correlation method was used to analyses the data. Result of t-test showed both organizations differ significantly on the current level of e-HRM practices. It also an effort to depicts the effects and importance of using electronic system in core functions of human resources management particularly in Human Resources planning & budgeting, Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Performance management, compensation& benefit Management, Employee file & Database in public and private sector