Abstract:
The trend of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) has
been emerged since the year of 2011 by German government. In
this IR 4.0 era, automatization is emphasized in the particular
industry. With the invention of high technologies on machines in
organizations, the practices and business models of organizations
would be impacted. The human resource practitioners might be
facing several challenges in organizations, such as lacking of
skilled workforce in managing the high-technology machines, as
well as the employees’ retention in this fast changing working
environment. The human resource officers need to ensure that the
employees are equipped with the updated knowledge and skills in
order to operate the machines. Besides, human resource
development is also playing a vital role in IR 4.0. Effective human
resource practices could improve the working environment in the
era of IR 4.0 by promoting the creativity of employees. Therefore,
it could be seen that, in human resource aspects, human resource
practices are concerned in organizations in order to match with
the trend of IR 4.0. However, there is a lacking of discussion on
the aspect of human resource practices, where most of the studies
discussed on the technologies aspect of IR 4.0. Hence, this paper
intends to discuss the human resource practices that could assist
organizations in achieving the goal of IR 4.0
