The Emergence of Strategic Human Capital Under the Differentiation Strategy: Data from Manufacturing Industry

Su-ying Gao (), Long Xu, Yan-li Zhang and Hong-feng Zhang
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Su-ying Gao: Hebei University of Technology
Long Xu: Hebei University of Technology
Yan-li Zhang: Hebei University of Technology
Hong-feng Zhang: Hebei University of Technology

A chapter in Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 921-931 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The emergence of strategic human capital is to aggregate, amplify, and change qualitative individual KSAOs by implement internal HR practices which have the coordinative attributes. A mass of data were collected from self-administered questionnaires answered by HR managers from 152 manufacturing firms within Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei regions. We divide the individual KSAOs into two aspects: cognitive KSAOs and noncognitive KSAOs. Strategic human capital is measured by its characteristics of value, rareness, imitability and organization (VRIO). The results of this research show that cognitive KSAOs has a positive impact on strategic human capital, and it completely mediates between strategic human capital and noncognitive KSAOs. Based on above research, we introduce internal HR practices as an independent variable to analysis the relationship between cognitive KSAOs and noncognitive KSAOs. The consequence shows that both of the KSAOs have a significant impact on the emergence of strategic human capital.

Keywords: Internal HR practices; KSAOs; Resource-based view of firms (RBV); Strategic human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40072-8_92

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