Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management (J-B SIOP Frontiers Series) March 2003

This eighteenth volume in the Jossey-Bass Organizational Frontiers Series provides an in-depth examination of how I/O psychologists can help find, recruit, and manage knowledge. The authors explain the nature of different types of knowledge, how knowledge-based competition is affecting organizations, and how these ideas relate to innovation and learning in organizations. They describe the strategies and organizational structures and designs that facilitate the acquisition and development of knowledge. And they discuss how continuous knowledge acquisition and innovation is promoted among individuals and teams and how to foster the creation of new knowledge. In addition, they explain how to assess the climate and culture for organizational learning, measure and monitor knowledge resources at the organizational level, and more. The Knowledge-based Approach To Sustainable Competitive Advantage / Angelo S. Denisi, Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson -- Alternative Strategies For Acquiring Knowledge / David L. Deeds -- Organizing For Knowledge-based Competitiveness : About Pipelines And Rivers / C. Marlene Fiol -- Designing Work For Knowledge-based Competition / Susan Albers Mohrman -- Managing The Human Resource Architecture For Knowledge-based Competition / David P. Lepak, Scott A. Snell -- Hiring For Knowledge-based Competition / Elaine D. Pulakos, David W. Dorsey, Walter C. Borman -- Contracting Talent For Knowledge-based Competition / Alison Davis-blake, Pamsy P. Hui -- Knowledge Management : Developing Intellectual And Social Capital / Raymond A. Noe [and Others] -- Stimulating And Supporting Creativity In Organizations / Greg R. Oldham -- Reward Systems In Knowledge-based Organizations / Edward E. Lawler Iii -- Retaining Knowledge By Retaining Technical Professionals : Implications Of The Unfolding Turnover Model And The Job Embeddedness Construct / Steven D. Maurer, Thomas W. Lee, Terence R. Mitchell -- Assessing The Culture And Climate For Organizational Learning / Lois E. Tetrick, Nancy Da Silva -- Strategic Knowledge Measurement And Management / John W. Boudreau -- Managing Human Resources For Knowledge-based Competition : New Research Directions / Susan E. Jackson, Michael A. Hitt, Angelo S. Denisi. Susan E. Jackson, Michael A. Hitt, Angelo S. Denisi, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) In the twenty-first-century landscape, firms must compete in a complex and challenging context that is being transformed by many factors, from globalization, technological development, and increasingly rapid diffusion of new technology, to the development and use of knowledge (Hitt, Keats, & DeMarie, 1998).