Innovativeness in a HR realization stage in the new economy organizations
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Management - Year 2012, Vol 11, Issue 2
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to attempt to describe the concept of innovativeness as a criteria of HRM decisions. At the present time it is clearly known that human capital is a source of economic predominance for organizations. On the other hand, innovativeness within an organization is a derivative of unique knowledge, employees’ behavior, attitude to job duties, and motivation of people as a reflection of the surrounding organizational environment. HRM is now becoming a tool which makes some kind of gained and implemented innovativeness in an organization based on knowledge. That is why the first part of this article is focused on the meaning of innovativeness as a changeable concept in a new economy organization. Increasingly, global competition forces an organization to implement a lot of innovations. This is only possible thanks to proper management knowledge used by HRM. Such conditions are located in a new economy organization. The next part concerns new to models of HRM which relate to the release of an innovation attitude to High Performance Work Systems and High Involvement Work Systems. The most important conclusion of this part is that compensation and appraisal systems are the most substantial elements of personnel function affecting the growth of innovativeness. They are shortly described in the next two parts. Finally, the authors present a first outline of their research project connected to the impact of HRM on the level of innovativeness in an organization in the new economy sector. The range of an organization’s type selected for the research pool includes firms based on their knowledge in the area of communications and internet, global firms in the services sector (new services), universities and training firms, consulting firms, sports organizations, and flexible organizational structure firms. The main research problem has been expressed: to what degree does innovativeness identify with HRM in new economy organizations? The answers to this will probably be discussed over the next few conferences.
Authors and Affiliations
Agata Borowska-Pietrzak, Tomasz Kawka
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