Research On High Performance Work System In Knowledge-based Enterprises

In the age of knowledge-based economy, the value of human resource has been the mark of estimating the key competence for companies, which decides some companies who put emphasis on knowledge staff will dominate in the economy and social development. The coming of knowledge economy and the strategies of independent innovated developing has brought great chances to the Knowledge-Based Enterprise who regard innovation as life on one hand. On the other hand, they also brought those companies serious challenges. The Knowledge-Based Enterprise should build up the high performance work system and improve the checking system so that the innovating abilities of staff will be given out fully, the key competence superiority of the campany will be established and the canpany will get the further opportunities to persisting develop. And this has a signigicant effect on the development of national economy and the national competence power.This research focuses on the Knowledge-Based Enterprise as the topic of stuty. It constructs a structural model which embodys the high performance work system and the relationship between knowledge-based managing capacilities and the performance of enterprisea and the author also demonstrates all supposed connections related to this model one by one . The high performance work system in the paper includs the following nine applied items: the human resource programme, job analysis, distinguishing and collocating, the invaluation on delelopment. the salary on performance . enterprise culture, training study, professional plan and the rights of staff. The knowledge-based managing capacilities include the following four aspects: knowledge attaining, knowledge sharing, knowledge applying and knowledge innovating. The paper divides the enterprise performance into enterprise running and innovating performance. Then . the author contrived the measurement and investigation based on all variable factors and did a survey in a large sacle. and proved the model and its supposed connections using the figures of the survey. The result of proof-test indicates that the theory model of this paper is proved true wholely and seven of nine contructing assumptions in the high performance work system is validated. In generally speaking, the author got his purpose of this reassurch. Through discussing the meaning of all assumptions, the research demonstrated some previous ideas from different perspectives and attained its own new viewpoints. The innovating consrribution in this research are as following: 1. Perspective innovationOn the background of knowledge-based economy, it is innovated that this reseach takes knowledge-based enterprise as model and studies the relativity between the practice of the high performance work system and the enterprise performance from the perspective of knowledge-based management. This new angle has the features of its time, which can touch closely the practical problems in reality, be distinguished from the research that is no bordery to countries for the enterprise. And this angle of view picks up the knowledge-based enterprise as the research object and hunts the result in the fixed range.2. Concept innovationOn the base of the knowledge-based managing and ability theory and the characters of the knowledge-based enterprise, this reseaerch will define the knowledge-based managing abilities as knowledge attaining, sharing, applying and innovating ability. They only include A H.Gold.(2001) knowledge-based managing flowing and innovating abilities, not including knowledge protecting ability. The basic establishment such as information technology is more a technological base and a way of knowledge-based management, is not regarded as the content of knowledge-based managing ability.3. Theory innovationThis research took "knowledge-based managing ability" (?)s the medi-variables between the high performance work system and the enterprise performance and studied the medi-effects of "knowledge-based managing ability", which is innovated. The previous reseaches on medi-variables in home and abroad pointed out all kinds of theory models from the perspective of microcosmic staff action or macroscopical organization action. But this research will make up the shortcomings mainly from the perspective of the medi-cosmic enterprise, bring forward the concetion which looks "knowledge-based managing ability" as the medi-variables of knowledge-based enterprise.4. Method innovationBecause the researches abroad on the high performance work system mostly took the foreign enterprises as models, the questions of the investigation mainly consider the staff of foreign enterprises. However, the purpose of this research will be on the domestic enterprise because the questions of the survey abroad are possibly not suitable for national enterprises.So, after reading the surveys abroad . the author mainly referred the domestic investigation by scholars and experts so that it can be fitted to the reality of the knowledge-based enterprise. So in the design of the survey of proof-testing research, the author developed the survey which are suitable for the knowledge-based enterprise of Chinese background. This is different in apply of measuring methods abroad.In a word, this research made up some blanks and deepened and improved the current studies. Meanwhile, the conclusion of the research will have some guiding significance for the managing fullfilment of enterprises.