Research
methodology
To achieve the objective of this study, an integrated review of the
literature was performed. The reviewed literature included journal
articles, conference papers, edited volumes, and reports from several
respected think tanks. Given that the IoT is still emerging, a wide
range of sources for a comprehensive review of the topic including the
gray literature was conducted. Given the nascent and fluidity of the
emergence of IoT as a phenomenon, reviewing only peer-reviewed scholarly
articles that make a specific theoretical contribution to the IoT would
have yielded a very limited review. Despite the significant work done by
members of the Virtual HRD Special Interest Group of the Academy of
Human Resource Development, most of the work is nascent and restricted
to works published in Advances in Human Resource Development(Bennett, 2010; McWhorter, 2010; Nafukho, Graham, & Muyia, 2010).
Relevant literature was identified by querying scholarly databases for
the terms: Internet of Things, IoT, Web of Things, Internet of
Everything, Internet of Objects, Embedded Intelligence, Connected
Devices and Technology Omnipotent, Cyber-Physical Systems, Pervasive
Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Machine-to-Machine; Human-Computer
Interaction, and Ambient Intelligence. Each of these terms were searched
in combination with term Human Resource. Returned results were
downloaded and uploaded to Mendeley Citation Software and further
screened using the following terms: Human Capacity and Human Resource.
The scholarly databases queried included: Web of Science, ABI/INFORM
Global, Academic Search Premier, ACM Digital Library, Applied Science &
Technology Full Text (EBSCO), IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, and Google
Scholar. The resulting 47 pertinent articles were reviewed for the
study.