Technology provides several benefits to international human resource management (IHRM) such as reducing costs, improving access to information, and facilitating faster decision making. It can be used for recruitment through online job postings, training expatriates with online programs, and monitoring expatriate performance and compensation through computerized tasks and wire transfers. However, there are also disadvantages like risks of cybercrime, inability to monitor all expatriate tasks technologically, data loss issues, and high set-up costs overseas.

1. Technology in
IHRM
Therisha Rose-Lawrence

2. General benefits of Technology
• Storage -Reduce paper trail
• Easy access to information (locally and
internationally)
• Improves communication
• Reduce HR cost for manpower
• Faster decision making
• Flatter Organizational chart

3. Use in IHRM
• Recruitment (e-recruitment)
Allows job postings online
• Training and Development
Online training programs for expatriates( videos,
manuals, live video conference training
sessions)

4. Use in IHRM cont’d
• Performance management
Monitor computerized task of expatriates online
• Compensation
Wire transfers of salary and other financial benefits
• Others:
Transfer employee data between local and overseas
HR and accounts; online employee assistance
programs; posting job openings, etc

5. Disadvantages

6. Disadvantages
• Risk of cybercrime
• Some task performed by expatriates cannot
be monitored using technology
• Risk of virus, Trojans, worms, etc.
• Loss of data due to failure of database

7. Disadvantages
• Availability of internet to access information
online.
• Host country may not encourage technology
use
• Overseas cost to set-up might be exorbitant