Sme Human Resources Upgrade

Since 20th century 60's Schultz proposed the human capital theory, theviewpoint of the human resources is enterprise's first resources obtaineduniversal approval. Nowadays, China's small and medium enterprises(SMES) are developing rapidly, but few can become bigger and stronger,the human resource limitation is one of the most important obstacles.Thus, how do the SMES obtain comparative advantages of humanresources over the outstanding foreign or large enterprises; and how tomeet the higher requests of human resources when the internal andexternal environments of enterprises are changing constantly, that alreadybecomes the urgent problems which need to study.In light of this situation, this paper focuses on the upgrading anddevelopment process of SMES' human resources. Through a combinationof organization development & change theory and human resourcesdevelopment & management theory, the paper proposes a conception ofhuman resources upgrading of SMES, and make a systematic research onhow to upgrade human resources for SMES.First, the paper points out the necessity of upgrading of China's SMEShuman resources through the analysis of current situation and changingtendency. Then, it proposes the concept of human resources upgradingsystematically, explaining its innovation and extension based on analysisand comparison to the traditional concept of human resource developmentand management. After that, the paper carries on some strategies abouthuman resources upgrading and explores how to use them for SMES inthe application. Finally, using organization change process theory forreference, the paper designs a representative human resources upgradingprocess.