Impact of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on HRM Functions

Abstract

As the increase in the technological development, Virtual Reality know-how has been used extremely in various fields. Like in ERP, even HR department has insisted the digital wave towards it by major enterprises and institutions. Previous few decades the AI technologies has been generated sweeping transformation across various industries. The culture and trends in the organisations have been witnessed a pragmatic change over years. The research paper concentrates on the changing role in the emerging wave of VR and AI in major HRM functions like recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and learning and development. The usage of HR technologies is helping the emerging HR professionals to take advantage for them as well as for the organisation and employees. The method used in research is quantitative survey, the data obtained for the research is by distributing online questionnaire to major IT HR professionals in Chennai by simple random sampling technique. The results have shown that there is great impact of VR and AI technologies in IT sector for recruiting and other HRM functions. This shows that the HR management functions can be improved effectively so that the costs of various HR related activities can be reduced, improves the engagement of employees and enriches the effectiveness of organisation.