Dear Colleagues,

Despite over four decades of debate around human resource management policy, its intellectual boundaries and its professional practice, the field continues to be dogged by a number of theoretical and practical limitations. As a way of managing employees, human resource policy is now considered a worldwide problem and is associated with recruiting, training and development, remuneration systems, equal opportunities and some social policies like welfare regimes (e.g. pension systems, time of retirement), which has implications for firm performance and the well-being of the employees. All the studies in this field suffer from the fact that we all live in an increasingly uncertain and rapidly changing world. Age, race, gender, and sustainability in human resource policy have long been questions of great interest in a wide range of the field. Recently, technological innovations including digitization, artificial intelligence, and robotics are reshaping the world of work. A ‘perfect storm’ of technological forces is beginning to transform work in ways never witnessed before and companies will have to alter their attitudes and policies towards employment, training, retirement, and so forth. Thus, the conceptualization and implementation of human resource policy will have to change enough to keep pace with new technologies.

we are interested in the collective subjects around human resource policy including its intellectual boundaries, application in practice and new change in the digital era. Research articles and reviews in this area of study are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kunpeng Sun

Section editor