Integrating IT into the Human Resource Management Curriculum: Pain or Pleasure?

Looks at the role of education providers in influencing human resource practitioner attitudes to and use of information technology. Examines the recent trends in IT usage in the human resource function and argues that the current situation presents education providers with an opportunity to impact on human resource practice and the profession′s apparent complacency to IT and its business potential. IT highlights two key considerations in curriculum delivery; integration and strategic focus and suggests that education centres face a number of constraints on provision not least tutor attitude and expertise. Concludes that the way forward is for tutors to examine their own approach and make a concerted effort to demonstrate the strategic value of IT, thereby acting as a powerful change agent.