Ebook: Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management

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.