The role of human resources in processes of portuguese firms’ RD&I certification and development

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Gomes ◽  
Vítor Braga ◽  
Alexandra Braga
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Innovation Activities

Innovation is seen as a competitive advantage that many companies use to ensure the continuity and success of your business.NP 4457:2007 is the Portuguese norm that supports management, based on a model of innovation backed up by interfaces and interaction between technical/scientific knowledge, its specific mechanisms and the overall society.Our paper aims to analyse innovation activities and the involvement of human resources in Portuguese firms certified by NP4457 and associated to the implementation of Research, Development, and Innovation (RD&I) management systems. We have collected the data through IPAC’s database, using a survey administered to all firms.Our results suggest the existence of a Human Resources (HR) involvement policy, customers and suppliers. The involvement of stakeholders with innovation activities results of its acceptance as a mechanism able to generate wealth, with benefits for both firms and the community.

scholarly journals Human Resource Management and Quality Assurance System to achieve Competitive Advantage

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Keffane ◽  
Hocine Bachioua ◽  
Ahmed Zerzour
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Assurance System

This study aims at the role of human resources management and quality assurance system to achieving the competitive advantage for the organization. Human resource management are the most important component among the organization's components, because, even an organization owns all other resources (materials, financial, technological) without the appropriate, skilled and experienced human resources, failure will be the expected result. Addressing By the Mobilis Telecom company, the study and through exploring the recruitment resources and methods that used by the company, in hiring the best employees, and the role of these methods in achieving the competitive advantage in Telecommunications sector. The findings of the study were that the company success in the recruitment process was rely on the employment agencies, firstly and on the universities, secondly. Also the company aimed on maintaining quality assurance system through recruiting method that based on Telecommunications experience and advancement in studying. In order to achieve the competitive advantage, the Company focused on innovation and creating new products and services for its clients. The statistical analysis proved that there is a strong relationship between recruitment resources used by the Company and achieving the competitive advantage, Also a relationship between the quality assurance system of the employees and the ability to gain the competitive advantage.

People Management – The Emerging Dimensions

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preshita Neha Tudu ◽  
Pramod Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Human Resource Professionals ◽  
Business World ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Fierce Competition

The business world has become more global and competitive and organizations are looking forward to seek new means to combat fierce competition, in order to bring the organization to a bright future. Competition in the market is tough and company that can win the war is one that provides better services and products to the customer. Cut throat competition has made employers realize that employees are the only source of competitive advantage. Much attention has been directed to provide quality service and products. This can be achieved through effective utilization of the human resources. The present review paper is an attempt to critically examine how the human resources function has changed over the years in order to cope with the changing market scenario and how has role of human resource professionals being transformed.

The Construction of Knowledge Management

2014 ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

A number of authors have stressed that competitive advantage through knowledge management is realized through identifying the valuable representation, organization, acquisition, creation, usage, and evolution of knowledge in its many forms that the organization knows or could know now: skills and experience of people, archives, documents, relations with clients, suppliers, and other persons and materials often contained in electronic databases. In so doing, this chapter covers the various types of knowledge, the Learning Organization (LO), and Organizational Learning (OL). This chapter also covers the history and meaning of knowledge (management), LO, and OL in terms of how all three elements are interrelated. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between LO and OL. With that said, the chapter explains why the role of knowledge transfer and human resources management is a top down approach and not a bottom up approach.

scholarly journals The Role of Formal and Informal Structures In Shaping the Corporation’s Relational Capital

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesław H. Haber
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Corporate Management System

Abstract The paper presents the origin of the term of ‘relational capital’ by reference to such previous management systems as human relations, organizational culture, or human resources management. At the same time, the author indicates the significance of relational capital in the recent conceptions associated with the treatment of management as a process. On that background, the roles of formal and informal structures in shaping relational capital are discussed, marking both positive and negative influence of such capital in the corporate management system.

scholarly journals Strategic Ambidexterity Learning of Innovation Activities: A Study of Indonesian Business Group Leader

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Retno Kusumastuti ◽  
Azhar Kasim ◽  
Sudarsono Hardjosoekarto
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Mental Construct ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Research Show

Competitive advantage refers to the attributes an organization maintains to better perform in comparison to its competitors. According to the Resource Based View, human capital has become a source of competitive advantage. Literatures exploring how strategic leadership leads to ambidexterity practice is still very rare. Ambidexterity practices is about how organizations learn to conduct innovation activities in both exploitative and explorative manner. A prominent leader should have influence on innovation activities in their organization through the decisions they have made. This study analyzed how a corporation had implemented ambidexterity learning practices to create competitive advantage based on the leader’s cognitive map. A leader’s cognitive map is a mental construct that represents the way the leader thinks in order to deal with the prevailing environment. The dynamics of the cognitive leader is portrayed by conversing the entrepreneur’s cognitive map using the Normalized Unit Modeling by Elementary Relationship (NUMBER). This research was conducted with Lippo Karawaci (LPKR) serving as the object of study. LPKR’s success is without a doubt inseparable from the role of its leader. The results of this research show that learning process and ongoing participation based on culture to pursue competitive advantage in ambidexterity practices had occurred in LPKR. Furthermore, this study shows the importance of strategic orientation in ambidexterity learning process through proper management of the company’s resources. The identified strategic directions—human resource, technology, profitability, and entrepreneurship— may be considered as sources of competitive advantage. This research is of significant value as it presents how a big corporation, such as LPKR, constantly creates new opportunities through exploratory and exploitative innovations and learning process simultaneously thereby becoming an ambidextrous organization.

Always on Guard

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-59
Author(s):  
Milyan (Mils) Hills
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Technical Risk

This chapter advances the idea that the modern organization can become immune to a full spectrum of risks by re-engineering its organizational capability and culture. Given the accepted role of people in causing or escalating technical risk – the requirement to achieve ‘always on' socio-technical protection poses a significant challenge. However, an enterprise's human resources offer a massive potential to detect and report risk and there is also substantial competitive advantage available to the organization which develops, integrates, leverages and acts on intelligence gained from a suite of socio-technical sensors and sense-making processes. The human resources and culture of an organization, properly configured, could comprise a powerful innate (constant) and adaptive (active) immune system. The chapter will provide the reader with a framework for how such an immune capability could be integrated into an organization that takes seriously the requirement to be ‘always on' – protected from any form or blend of socio-technical threat.

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