HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management Edited by Stefan Strohmeier Professor of Management Information Systems, Chair of Management Information Systems, Saarland University, Germany Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Stefan Strohmeier 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2022931121 This book is available electronically in the Business subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839107535 ISBN 978 1 83910 752 8 (cased) ISBN 978 1 83910 753 5 (eBook) EEP BoX Contents List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors x Preface xii 1 Artificial intelligence in human resources – an introduction 1 Stefan Strohmeier PART I APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES PART I.1 APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING IN HUMAN RESOURCES 2 HR machine learning – an introduction 25 Stefan Strohmeier 3 HR machine learning on text data 46 Felix Gross 4 HR machine learning on audio and video data 68 Carmen Fernández-Martinez and Alberto Fernández 5 HR machine learning on social media data 89 Jake T. Harrison and Christopher J. Hartwell 6 HR machine learning in recruiting 105 Sven Laumer, Christian Maier, and Tim Weitzel 7 Machine learning in HR staffing 127 Florian J. Meier and Sven Laumer 8 Machine learning in personnel selection 149 Cornelius J. König and Markus Langer PART I.2 FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES 9 HR knowledge representation and reasoning 169 Jorge Martinez-Gil 10 HR robotic process automation 187 Peter Fettke and Stefan Strohmeier v vi Handbook of research on artificial intelligence in human resource management 11 HR evolutionary computing 207 Lena Wolbeck and Charlotte Köhler 12 HR natural language processing – conceptual overview and state of the art on conversational agents in human resources management 226 Sven Laumer and Stefan Morana 13 HR affective computing 243 William J. Becker, Sarah E. Tuskey, and Constant D. Beugré PART II CONSEQUENCES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES 14 Consequences of artificial intelligence in human resource management 261 Maarten Renkema PART III NORMATIVE ISSUES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES 15 Explainability of artificial intelligence in human resources 285 Markus Langer and Cornelius J. König 16 Fairness of artificial intelligence in human resources – held to a higher standard? 303 Sandra L. Fisher and Garret N. Howardson 17 Accountability of artificial intelligence in human resources 323 Katharina A. Zweig and Franziska Raudonat 18 Legitimacy of artificial intelligence in human resources – the legal framework for using artificial intelligence in human resource management 337 Kai von Lewinski and Raphael de Barros Fritz PART IV RESEARCH ISSUES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES 19 Design considerations for conducting artificial intelligence research in human resource management 353 Richard D. Johnson and Dianna L. Stone 20 Employing artificial intelligence in human resources research 371 Chulin Chen and Richard Landers Index 392 Figures 1.1 Intertwining of conventional AI categories 6 1.2 Integrated categorization of AI 8 1.3 Current state of AI in HR 10 2.1 Process of HR machine learning 26 2.2 Algorithms of HR machine learning (modified from Piazza, 2010) 28 3.1 Preparation of text data 48 3.2 Tasks of machine learning on text data 51 4.1 Example of facial detection (outer gray lines) and facial feature extraction (white lines and points) 75 4.2 Video interview analysis 80 6.1 Person–environment fit (Jansen & Kristof-Brown, 2006; Muchinsky & Monahan, 1987) 107 6.2 The HR recruiting machine learning model 111 7.1 HR staffing model 129 7.2 HR staffing ML model 138 9.1 Description of a human resource management system making use of techniques based on knowledge representation 177 9.2 Ontology of programming languages whereby two filters have been applied to assess the degree of matching between Java and C# 179 11.1 Exemplary occurrence of staffing, scheduling, and rescheduling in human resources in one year 208 11.2 Scheme of an evolutionary algorithm based on Eiben and Smith (2015b) 210 11.3 Cumulative number of publications in the last 20 years: (a) areas of human resources and evolutionary computing; (b) application areas of evolutionary computing in human resources 216 12.1 HRM services provided to applicants (HR2A), employees (HR2E), and managers (HR2B) 228 vii viii Handbook of research on artificial intelligence in human resource management 12.2 HR conversational agent model 236 15.1 The relation of XAI methods, understanding, and outcomes 293 16.1 Confusion matrix example 310 Tables 2.1 Data of HR machine learning 30 4.1 Use cases of ML in HR audio and video data 73 5.1 Categorization of social media platforms 91 6.1 Supervised learning machine learning algorithms (based on Rudolph, 2020) 109 6.2 Papers using machine learning approaches predicting person– environment fit dimensions 112 6.3 Information extracted to be used in HR machine learning 116 7.1 Reviewed literature 134 8.1 Current status of the field 161 12.1 Descriptive results of the literature search phases 231 12.2 Literature review results 232 14.1 An organizing framework for the research on consequences of AI in HRM 263 16.1 Typical confusion matrix 310 17.1 Possible accountability relationships between different roles in the socio-technical system using an ADM system to make decisions about people 328 17.2 HR process model and Long Chain of Responsibilities divided into three phases 329 17.3 Roles of actors in the HR context 331 19.1 Research designs of HRM studies with an AI focus 354 ix