Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work: Opportunities and Challenges for HR

The Special Issue will focus on the opportunities and challenges of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for human resource management (HRM). Building on an increasing evidence base of its benefits for the business and employee experience (Budhwar et al., 2022; Malik et al., 2020, 2021; Nguyen & Malik, 2021) as well as threats to future of work and employment (Huang & Rust, 2018), this call aims to address several attendant challenges for HR managers, leaders and employees for responsible and sustainable deployment AI in the HR profession and the communities it will serve (Charlwood & Guenole, 2021). Although AI can make moral judgements, but the bigger question is whether we should allow it to make such judgements (Wheeler, 2021) as there are ethical, moral and legal issues at stake in the adoption, design and implementation of AI-enabled HRM applications and algorithmic decision-making (Duan, Edwards, & Dwivedi, 2019). Increasingly, questions about responsible management, decent work, ethics, trust between the interactions humans have with AI or humanoids as co-workers are topics of great scholarly pursuit (Agar, 2019; De Stefano, 2019; Glikson & Woolley, 2020). Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts.