Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management

Susan E. Jackson, Angelo DeNisi, Michael A. Hitt9780787957179, 0787957178

The underlying notion is that companies used to gain competitive advantage by the more thorough exploitation of critical resources such as oil and gas, but are increasing relying instead on the more thorough utilization of human resources. Human resource professionals urge industrial/organizational psychologists to apply their expertise in transmuting human knowledge into corporate profit to focus specifically on it as a competitive weapon.

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Table of contents :
TeamLiB……Page 1
Cover……Page 2
Contents……Page 11
Foreword……Page 13
Preface……Page 17
The Contributors……Page 19
Part One: Introduction……Page 29
1 The Knowledge-Based Approach to Sustainable Competitive Advantage……Page 31
Part Two: Work and Organizational Designs for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 63
2 Alternative Strategies for Acquiring Knowledge……Page 65
3 Organizing for Knowledge-Based Competitiveness:About Pipelines and Rivers……Page 92
4 Designing Work for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 122
Part Three: Staf.ng Organizations for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 153
5 Managing the Human Resource Architecture for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 155
6 Hiring for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 183
7 Contracting Talent for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 206
Part Four: Developing and Motivating Employees for Knowledge-Based Competition……Page 235
8 Knowledge Management: Developing Intellectual and Social Capital……Page 237
9 Stimulating and Supporting Creativity in Organizations……Page 271
10 Reward Systems in Knowledge-Based Organizations……Page 302
11 Retaining Knowledge by Retaining Technical Professionals: Implications of the Unfolding Turnover Model and the Job Embeddedness Construct……Page 331
Part Five: Measuring Knowledge-Based Resources……Page 359
12 Assessing the Culture and Climate for Organizational Learning……Page 361
13 Strategic Knowledge Measurement and Management……Page 388
Part Six: Conclusion……Page 425
14 Managing Human Resources for Knowledge-Based Competition: New Research Directions……Page 427
Name Index……Page 457
Subject Index……Page 471