AN INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE BASED VIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCE COPMETENCIES

摘要

The importance of knowledge in various forms and in different levels of organization is obvious from the different streams of research in management areas. Despite the existence of such variety of research, the role of HR in creation, retention, application of knowledge is less explored. In this paper we try to clarify the role of HR in knowledge based view of the firm (KBV). We try to make closer two streams of research which are HR competencies and the firm processes in knowledge based view. We believe that for creating, acquiring, sharing, renewing, and integrating knowledge the individuals need competencies of different nature compared to what are already discussed in human resource management (HRM) literature. Based on this approach, we provide the new sense to the competencies of HR. To achieve this purpose we present a framework of analysis based on two main axes: 1) The nature of the learning process. 2) The objective of processes by KBV. By this framework we propose six criteria for reconsidering HR competencies with the needs of KBV. In this article we make a connection between two domains of HRM and KBV. The linking point between these two areas is the concept of HR competencies. The context of competencies in HR is made up, from one side, by the knowledge required to perform a job and, at the other side, by the behaviors which are required acting special roles for achieving a higher performance in work. These two parts made traditionally a fundamental dichotomy in framework of in organizational learning literature. The proposed framework can be a departure step for more research on the role of knowledge based competencies of human resources in innovative performance of the firm. Another contribution of this framework is about providing a tool for evaluating existing human resources competencies which are already discussed largely in HRM domain and shedding light on the some missing competencies which are less explored.