Empirically Derived IT Competencies Profiles for Human Resource Managers: A Working HR Student’s Perspective

Abstract

Information Technology (IT) competencies held by Human Resource Managers (HRM) are importance as they form one of the prerequisites to achieve business value from IT. However, little research has investigated IT competencies for HRM. We employed cluster analysis followed by discriminant analysis on two data sets from a survey of 155 working HR students in a North American Business School: one on the level of IT competencies of the respondents and another on the perceived importance of IT competencies for HRM. The results highlight a contrast with the prominence of IT for HR management as put forward by HR scholars.