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Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections.

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Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections edited by Catherine M. SLEEZER, Tim L. WENTLING and Roger L. CUDE, Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 277 pp., ISBN 0-7923-7594-7.

When I first received this book, I was quite excited. After all, information technology (IT) has the potential to interact with human resource practices in a variety of ways, some beneficial, some problematic. What I was hoping for was a set of detailed examples of how IT can contribute to HR practice, along with a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of various applications, and the pitfalls to avoid. In fact, this book is very different from that.

This book consists of a collection of thirteen papers, most of them originally presented at a technology "pre-conference" at the 2001 Academy of Human Resource Development's annual meetings. The articles themselves are very much a mixed bag, in terms of topic, focus, interest, and quality. Four chapters (1, 3, 4, 5) focus on relationships...

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