Strategic human resource management and tacit knowledge transfer: A case study

摘要

What is the link between Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) and Knowledge transfer? That is thenquestion we should answer in our study that is meant to be innovative thanks to the connection with Strategic Human ResourcesnManagement, considered as major factor of competencies management. To our knowledge, few studies considered this question,nexcept some lone attempts which did not find an objective answer.nThe field of SHRM has gone threw a marked evolution for more than two decades, from an accounting approach to a competenciesnbased one. The latest approach, as outcome of this evolution, advances the internal organizational capacities rather than thenexternal constraints.We develop our analysis in this perspective (competencies based approach). Our study reports an exploratoryncase study which aims at understanding the HRM contribution to tacit knowledge transfer in a French crystal manufacture wennamed “Alpha enterprise”.