The Research On Expertise Development Of Human Resources Practitioners

Since the new occupation-"human resources" came into China, it had been rapidly heightened in China and turned into one of the occupational choice of general college students and socialites. In better educated, networking, competitive process, HR management practitioners have tended to professionalization and specialization. As a postgraduate in research area of Human Resources Development and Management, I take the HR practitioners as the objects of study. The purpose of the study is to display the phases of their expertise development, to exhibit the learning practice activities which take an important effect on HR expertise development in their everyday life, and to try to disclose the driving forces behind the expertise development, and outline a basic picture based on gross-roots exploration in order to understand what the HR expertise was and how the HR expertise developed.The research adopted qualitative interview. Chapter One and Two exhibit the thoughts and ideas of the research. Chapter Three- Five are narrative texts of the three research partners, which interpret and analyze the phases of expertise development and the learning practice activities in the development of HR expertise and the driving force behind the HR expert's development through the textual analysis of three cases. Chapter Six is to briefly express the opinion of HR expertise and development based on narrative text.Research Finding:Finding One: In comparison with other occupations, HR as an occupation expertise takes some characteristics as below: Significant perceptual pattern and strategic thinking, the fast problem resolving, the outstanding communication skills, the powerful capability of change and innovation and the strong ability of self-understanding and self-management; Finding Two: The characteristics of HR expertise development: long-term, phased, practiced, professional, and diversification; Finding Three: The significant influencing factors in HR expertise development: higher education, corporate culture, the text of personal life, practice, the internal driving force of learning, the guidance of the supervisors and colleagues.The paper exhibits a series of challenges which investigator encountered in the qualitative research and the profound consideration and realization of some questions of qualitative research.