*Dean, Department of Management Studies, Phonics Group of Institutions, Roorkee, Uttarakhand
**Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Phonics Group of Institutions, Roorkee, Uttarakhand
***Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Dev Bhoomi Institute of Technology, Dehradun
Knowledge is the symbol of prosperity, key to development, power of mind and life of brain. India is approaching knowledge-based economy; it has the potential to become a knowledge superpower. The foundations of Knowledge organizations are their valuable people. According to Peter Drucker, Knowledge workers are those employees who combine their strong analytical and theoretical knowledge to come up with radically new ideas. Knowledge capital creates the long lasting competitive advantage. This means that locating and retaining knowledge workers is the single most important challenge for any company competing in the changing environment.
“Today knowledge workers are like frogs in a wheelbarrow, which can jump at any point of time when they sense opportunities”
Good work behavior + knowledge source = Company growth
The process of creativity is key to human excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude. According to physiology, the human brain is divided into two hemispheres- right and left. The right hemisphere is the seat of creativity, intuition, imagination, faith, love, charity, compassion, tolerance and other such ennobling qualities. The left hemisphere is the seat of logic, judgment, the faculty of critical enquiry and questioning. The aim of education should be to forge the synthesis of these two hemispheres in the human personality to promote awareness for imparting knowledge.
The success of any organization depends largely on its workforce. The HR professionals recognized that core competency lies in the employees so recruiting the right candidate for the right job is very essential. In order to judge and select the talented potential employees one must need a talent to identify the recruitment and shortlist the prospective candidate on the basis of information supplied. The recruiter must have through knowledge of the prevailing situation and competencies and abilities to be identified from the available candidates in the age of modern upcoming field of human resource management keeping in view the global prospective of knowledge management. Knowledge workers are calculated risk takers as well as emotional intelligent people. They seek challenges in work and do not follow blind instruction. To retain knowledge workers organizations should give significance to Quality of Work life and Harmonious environment. Managing Knowledge workers is one of the greatest challenges uncounted by HR Managers.
Core competencies, HR Strategies, knowledge capital Recruitment, Retention
