ation technology will involve changes in the working process and information flows of the organization (“Human Resource Implications”).Although the information technology is simplifying our lives it is causing problems in areas such as Title structure, Recruitment, testing and selection, performance appraisal, rewards and compensation, training and professional development, which will be discussed in the following paragraphs (“Human Resource Implications”).Title structures are becoming a problem because of the technology requirements of jobs changing so rapidly. Classification standards for one information specialty cannot be effectively established without reference to related fields and to the means by which individual professionals acquire the knowledge. “The full range of information technology and information resource management titles need to be identified and relationships among them explicit before in–depth work on individual titles can be effective” (“Human Resource Implications”).Many jobs are related, to one another in practice, but are not connected by career ladders. Different kinds of technical jobs may require different kinds of expertise although they are related they may not be interchangeable. For example, Mainframe installations are operated and managed very differently than installations of network computers (“Human Resource Implications”).After jobs are classified and career paths made possible the recruitment, testing and selection process becomes critical. The appropriate person must be hired for the appropriate job at the appropriate time. Traditional methods for recruiting, testing and selection can be time consuming and expensive. New methods of selecting candidates are necessary. Selection of candidates requires recognition that highly complex technical skills are not readily transferable from one technology platform to another. Alternatives wou...
