A Two-dimensional Interaction Growth Model Designed For R&D Staff In Commercial Vehicle

Along with the development of new technologies,such as big data,cloud storage and car networking,development of Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturers are being moved forward to a new stage,where the domestic market competition is becoming more fierce and the international market more complicate.In order to maintain competitiveness of their products,it is necessary to shorten the time used for research and development,and project management is an essential tool for making such transformation in the described environment,while R&D(Research and Development)staff are the key resources of these companies for the transformation.Therefore,how to promote the maximum talent value of these R&D staff in projects has become a key issue for commercial vehicle companies.However,under the traditional weak matrix system of these organizations,it is hard for project team to use their powers for human resource allocation and performance evaluation,which is bringing negative influence to the project results,and also harmful for the development of R&D employees.Correspondingly,we newly defined the organizations structure for the research institutions inside of these commercial vehicle manufacturers,and we also built a project&professional two-dimensional interaction growth model for these employees.The main contents are described as follows:The first part is about the analysis of the key elements used in the two-dimensional interaction model.Based on the two dimensions including ’project’ and ’professional’,we firstly proposed a two-dimensional organization structure which is supported by project management office(PMO),and this is organizational foundation of the two-dimensional interaction model.Then,a general competency model is designed for all the R&D staff according to a newly defined ’project role competence’ conception,which can be used as the basis for the analysis of the two dimensions.Then the hierarchy of the project roles in the ’project’ dimension and the professional ranks of R&D staff in the‘professional’dimension are clarified,in which all the R&D employee can clearly get their growth in the two dimensions.The second part is about the discussion of how to use the two-dimensional interaction growth model in real commercial vehicle R&D organizations.In this part,a two-dimensional interaction growth model is proposed based on the changes of the general competency model for an employee,which is just the staggered growth path for the employee in both of the ’project’ and ’professional’ dimensions.Besides,we also discussed how to define the changes in the general competency model and how to realize the function of the two-dimensional interaction model.In conclusion,constitution of commercial vehicle R&D projects are analyzed to propose the general competency model for R&D employees,and then the categories of the project roles and the professional ranks of R&D staff are defined to be the two dimensions for the development of an R&D employee.Finally,the two-dimensional interaction growth model is established based on the two dimensions and the dynamic mechanisms inside of the model are discussed.This study is helpful for the human resource allocation of multi-projects management,and is also meaningful for identifying the key talents and building a reasonable talent echelon for the commercial vehicle R&D organizations.