From transactional algorithms to social contracts: A conceptual framework for adaptive human resource management under the new labour codes
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The paradigm of Traditional HRM is challenged by the emergence of platform economy. Flexibility and efficiency in platform architecture have come at the cost of the employment relationship, which has been replaced by a precarious and psychologically contract-based workforce. This paper attempts to reconcile these two conditions of modern-day workforce through the interpretation of labor laws that ensure social security for the workforce along with the development of a digital registry of employment and occupational welfare by the platform. Through the application of both Institutional and Organizational Justice Theory of Work, I present a set of theory tools that can help understand how digital platforms may be induced to have an integrated HRM system rather than the archetype based on algorithmic management. There is a good deal of theories produced as a result of this research that can be put to the test empirically. The theories and strategies presented in this paper will be very valuable for those who are involved in policy and HR practices in their competition with employment laws for gig economy platforms.
Author: Bibhuti Bhusan Behera
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7225380600