Human Resource Development In Knowledge-Based Firms

Knowledge-based firm is a new form of organizations in the age of knowledge economy. Research on knowledge-based firms in academia is in the ascendant. The development of knowledge-based firms depends on its human resource development (HRD). Human resource development in knowledge-based firms isa complicated and dynamic process, which comprises a challenging research field, in which this dissertation is a tentative exploration. Based on the review of the literature on knowledge-based firms and human resource development, training,individual learning among knowledge workers, organizational learning inknowledge-based firms are explored in the dissertation, and two cases of humanresource development in knowledge-based firms are provided. We hope that suggestions can be given to the practices of human resource development in knowledge-based firms.In the dissertation, human resource development in knowledge-based firms is systematically analyzed in three important aspects: training, individual learningamong knowledge workers, organizational learning, which is an tentativeexpansion on the theory of human resource development.Knowledge workers can be in a continuous process of learning and growing through training. Because they themselves have better quality and professionalcapabilities, knowledge-based firms should focus on self-helping training andinteractive training among knowledge workers . Knowledge workers ' innovative capacity is one of the most important competences for knowledge-based firms.Therefore, three dimensions, e.g. knowledge structure, dynamical system andrealizing mechanism, to develop knowledge workers ' innovative capacity arediscussed in the dissertation.Individual learning among knowledge workers is seldom involved in the literatures of human resource development and management. Individual learning mechanism and cycle are explored and individual learning methods and process among knowledge workers are analyzed in the dissertation. Ways to motivateknowledge workers to learn are discussed, such as constructing a dynamical learning climate in organizations, setting up achievable goals, establishing flexibleworking system, etc.Organizational learning (OL) has become one of the hottest topics hi business and in academia hi the recent 20 years in the west. Organizational learning is regarded as one of the important way to develop human resource in knowledge-based firms. Cognitive style-based managerial interventions on organizational learning in firms are probed for the first time in the dissertation.And an organizational learning model, in which knowledge acquisition and absorption, knowledge transference, knowledge sharing, unlearning and knowledge creating are included, is constructed in knowledge-based firms.