Knowledge-based Enterprise Human Resource Development Role

With the coming of knowledge economy, knowledge enterprises have become the leading factor of modern economic increment. In the Knowledge Enterprises (KE), the knowledge, as a self-governed production factor, has dominated others. In this situation, how to transfer proper knowledge to proper man and share the knowledge at the proper time with the maximum value of the enterprise or in other words, how to develop the Human Resource (HR), to make use of the wisdom of the collectivity, to improve the reaction capability and the creativity to enhance the competition is a new problem that every knowledge enterprise need to solve at present.This paper based on the HRD theories, has analyzed knowledge workers' personalities and features: capable to learn, creative, independent, self-centered, ambitious, and combining the content and significance of HRD in KE, it is found that the way to develop the knowledge workers is quite different from that to other workers who are not working in the knowledge enterprises and the traditional human resource developing roles, such as: manager of Human Resource Development (HRD), researcher & designer, analyzer & appraiser, administer and so on are suffering serious challenges. Considering a serial research on HRD and the connotation of HRD and Knowledge Management (KM) and through material collection and analysis, this paper gives a clear description of HRD roles in KE: learning tutor, knowledge manager, human resource coordinator, user of modern HR developing tools. In order to meet the requirements of the enterprises' development and to reach the best state of the knowledge enterprises' HRD. knowledge enterprises should try to transform themselves into Learning Enterprisers through continuous organizational learning.