E-HRM and Outsourcing For Arabic Countries and Large Organisations

Organization processes put lots of emphasis on improving efficiency and effectiveness where outsourcing and offshoring non-core as well as core activities play essential role in achieving these objectives. Adopting outsourcing and offshoring at organizations has many benefits including saving cost using low-wage labor markets, allowing companies to focus on their core business which can lead to increase efficiency and competitiveness, as well as enabling organizations to have the right expertise that can’t be found in-house and transferring unpredictable risks to contractors. On the other hand there will be issues associated with outsourcing which need to be taken care of and can include monitoring quality, security protection and legal issues, culture and social issue which resulted in backlash of jobs going overseas, and business time convenient. Electronic HRM (E-HRM) becomes widely used in organizations for online recruiting, online advertisement of jobs, online storage of employees CV, and creating a competitive advantage by managing people and complex information in the global workplace easily. This results in speeding up the recruitment times and eventually reduces the transaction costs as well as helping organizations to search and access resumes for potential employees. HR outsourcing and e-HRM can be used together to form the HR architecture which achieve better organizational efficiency at low cost. The HR outsourcing/offshoring and e-HRM are extremely needed for organizations at Arabic countries to better utilize the expertise at developed and affordable countries in order to speed up the HR process and especially in recruiting the right professional peoples from overseas.