Administrative Innovation in Human Resource Information Systems: Exploring Post-Adoption Usage in Kuwait’s Public Sector

Human resource information systems (HRIS) have a prominent role in organizational success and have been used to support various HR goals. Previous research on HRIS focuses on its adoption as a form of innovation per se, and limited studies examine innovation emerging in the context of HRIS post-adoption usage. This study will focus on post-adoption usage from the perspective of administrative innovation, which is related to improvements in work processes and tasks following the adoption of HRIS. Although innovation has gained more interest in the public sector as a way to improve efficiency, there is a lack of studies regarding HRIS and administrative innovation in this sector. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the development of administrative innovation in the public sector of Kuwait where HRIS has been adopted and integrated into various HR practices. This poster presents the preliminary findings of the research in progress