Over the last two decades e-HRM has evolved into a unique field of inquiry embracing all types of IT-enabled HRM which has the potential not only to automate but to transform HRM processes. Rapid advances in AI, leading the release of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google’s PaLM2 provide new opportunities and capabilities for e-HRM users. AI driven data-engineering has the potential to dramatically improve the ease with which data from different e-HRM systems can be joined up and integrated, and to automate processes within HRIS that currently require human oversight. AI co-piloting has the potential to make it much easier to generate insights from HR data, democratising HR analytics. There has been an explosion of AI for HR start-ups, and the most successful of these, companies like Beamery and Phenom, are gaining customers through AI systems that integrate with traditional HRIS. Despite these impressive advances, many of the traditional challenges and agendas of e-HRM remain. How to upskill the HR profession to take advantages of these new opportunities? How to balance opportunities for productivity and performance gains with the need for human oversight from seasoned professionals? How to introduce new systems and processes in an ethical way that gives appropriate weight to employee voice?

The aim of the 9th e-HRM Conference is to enable scholars and professionals from around the world to share new ideas on, insights into and experiences to address these and other questions pertinent to e-HRM in practice and as an academic field of study. We invite authors to submit theoretical, conceptual and/or empirical contributions, and encourage methodological plurality, including quantitative/qualitative studies, action research, future studies (or combinations thereof), as well as proposals for symposia and practitioner-scholar panels. To further advance the field, we also encourage and call for interdisciplinary and cross-domain contributions from academia, consultancy, and industry. We are also inviting contributions from adjacent research fields that focus on the various aspects of managing human resources in digitalized organizations and ecosystems.

Key Dates

• January 2024 - Paper submissions and registration opens
• 8 March 2024 - Deadline for submission of extended abstracts and proposals
• 15 March 2024 - Deadline for notification of acceptance or rejection
• 13 May 2024 - Deadline for submission of full papers
• 13 May 2024 - Deadline for conference registration and payment
• 17 June 2024 - PhD Workshop, University of Leeds
• 18 - 19 June 2024 - 10th e-HRM Conference, University of Leeds

Located in Yorkshire in the North of England, The University of Leeds is one of the UK’s leading civic universities. The history or the University parallels that of the City of Leeds. Founded in the 19th century in a rapidly industrialising city whose wealth came from textiles, coal, railways, engineering and chemicals (carbonated drinks were invented in Leeds!). Today, Leeds is a vibrant post-industrial city based around a compact city centre full of attractive 19th century architecture. There is plenty for visitors to do from art and culture,museums, history and heritage to shopping. Leeds is also a short train journey from the historic medieval city of York. The beautiful countryside of the Yorkshire Dales National Park is easily accessible.

Leeds is a little over two hours from London by train. Leeds-Bradford airport has multiple daily direct flights to Amsterdam and Dublin and regular scheduled flights to a number of other European cities. Leeds is also easily accessible via direct trains from Manchester airport.