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.