Human Resource Information Systems Basics, Applications, and Future Directions

Michael J. Kavanagh is currently Professor Emeritus of Management at the State University of New York at Albany. He also serves on the faculty of the Lorange School of Business Administration, Zurich, Switzerland. He is past editor of Group & Organization Management and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Eastern Academy of Management. He has been involved in the HRIS field since 1982. He established the HRIS MBA program at the University at Albany in 1984 and has taught numerous courses in the field of HRIS. In 2006, he received the Award for Career Excellence from the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM). He received his PhD in I/O psychology from Iowa State University in 1969. Mohan Thite is a senior lecturer at Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has more than 20 years' experience as an HR professional, both in industry and in academia. He is a fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute. He has been teaching HRIS for several years. His research interests include strategic HRM in the knowledge economy, HRIS and HRM in multinational corporations from emerging economies. His publications include a book on Managing People in the New Economy (Sage, India), a forthcoming coedited book on HRM in call centers and the business process outsourcing industry in India, book chapters, and articles in international journals such as Work, Employment, and Society, International Journal of HRM, and International Journal of Project Management.