E-Human Resource Management 1. This book is presented in four sections — the first intended to be more general in nature, the following three devoted to specific aspects of the HRM field in the new information era. Section I, The Cutting-Edge in HRM, presents an overview of how ITCs are modifying general HRM processes and functions. This is the aim of the first three contributions. | E-Human Resources Management 1 Managing Knowledge People Teresa Torres-Coronas Mario Arias-Oliva e-Human Resources Management Managing Knowledge People Teresa Torres-Coronas Universitat Rovira i Virgili Spain Mario Arias-Oliva Universitat Rovira Virgili Spain IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING Hershey London Melbourne Singapore Acquisitions Editor Senior Managing Editor Managing Editor Development Editor Copy Editor Typesetter Cover Design Printed at Mehdi Khosrow-Pour Jan Travers Amanda Appicello Michele Rossi Maria Boyer Jennifer Wetzel Lisa Tosheff Yurchak Printing Inc. Published in the United States of America by Idea Group Publishing an imprint of Idea Group Inc. 701 E. Chocolate Avenue Suite 200 Hershey PA 17033 Tel 717-533-8845 Fax 717-533-8661 E-mail cust@ Web site http and in the United Kingdom by Idea Group Publishing an imprint of Idea Group Inc. 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London WC2E 8LU Tel 44 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 20 7379 3313 Web site http Copyright 2005 by Idea Group Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying without written permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data e-Human resources management managing knowledge people Teresa Torres-Coronas Mario Arias-Oliva editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59140-435-5 h c -- ISBN 1-59140-436-3 s c -- ISBN 1-59140-437-1 eISBN 1. Personnel management. 2. Information technology--Management. 3. Knowledge management. I. Torres-Coronas Teresa 1966- II. Arias-Oliva Mario 2005 00285 4678--dc22 2004016385 British Cataloguing in Publication Data A Cataloguing in Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. All work contributed to this book is new previously-unpublished material. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors but not necessarily of the