June 2025 Edition

IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AUTOMATION ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA

Usman Adamu Babayayi, Abubakar Sadiq Sulieman, Jamilu Inuwa, Jibril Ramalan

Abstract

This review synthesizes the existing literature on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on Human Resource Management (HRM) practices. The study explores literature and reveals how AI disrupts the traditional way of conducting HRM practices with tech innovative ideas to harness and promote the HRM practices in 21st-century industries, and its scope includes areas like efficiency and productivity, recruitment and talent acquisition, workforce development and training, and lastly, ethical considerations and challenges. A comprehensive search was conducted across academic databases, HRM journals, and conference proceedings, resulting in a selection of relevant studies. The study strictly aims to ascertain how AI affects HRM, and the research uses theoretical literature review as a research method. Plethora of publications serve as the research materials for this study, which employs a theoretical literature review methodology. The authors discovered that AI has an impact on HR professionals' abilities, job displacement, and position creation. AI should be encouraged by HR managers to boost productivity.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence; Automation; Human resource management; Productivity;..

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