economic conditions of Pakistan. This type of study can also be enhanced to the Public Sector Undertaking where public and private sectors can be compared.
Future researchers could use a larger sample of companies to improve on representation. The study covered only technological change and its impact on HRD strategies; hence researchers may want to consider studying other types of changes, such as organizational changes. Reasons driving technological changes and the frequency of changes can be investigated to determine an appropriate period for companies to retrain workers to cope with new changes.
Other HRD issues such as career development, performance appraisal and industrial relations can be explored. Organization variables affected by technological changes such as organization structure, job design, authority, responsibility and communication patterns could also be included. To obtain a more comprehensive and in-depth study, employees could also be included as respondents to show the impact of various HR strategies on different interest groups. The length of business experience can also be incorporated to see if there are significant differences among companies of different years of experience in their use of human resource strategies to cope with technological change. Analysis between government-linked and private companies, as well as between listed and non-listed companies can be conducted. A comparison between technology firms such as Internet and software companies and non-technology firms could be examined for differences in HR strategies with regard to technological changes. Future research should focus on more detailed interviews and focus groups to obtain more comprehensive views of the current situation. Specific case studies could be conducted on representative companies to gain an in-depth knowledge of the impact of technological changes on HR within each company. The study may be replicated in other countries with an additional variable, national culture considered. It would be a valuable finding to prove that national culture varies from country to country hence enabling the development of an Asian model depicting the impact of technological changes on HR strategies.