This work examines the contextual framework and the imperatives of a knowledge-based economy, in which human resource development has assumed increasing importance as the means to boost productive capabilities, foster and sustain national growth and provide a competitive edge to corporations. The book is divided into four major sections: Perspectives and Prospects; Governments and National Strategy; Development of Human Resources and Paradigms for Organisational Success.

Unconventional parameters characterize the knowledge-based economy of the twenty first century, with trained knowledge workers and intellectual capital constituting its foundation. In the new economic order, personal skills, innovation and creativity are not merely factors of production, but important sources of wealth and imperatives for economic growth. In the global war for knowledge and talent, human resource development becomes a crucial competitive strategy for nations and organizations. This book compiles the insight of specialists who attended ECSSR’s Seventh Annual Conference on Human Resource Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy, February 9-11, 2002. The conference presentations highlight global trends in human resource development and also the challenges confronting the Gulf region. It covers modes to boost human capital, weighs the relative costs and benefits of intellectual capital investment, identifies technological applications for knowledge transfer, outlines structural models for organizational excellence, and proposes strategies for education, workforce planning and training in the knowledge-based economy.

This volume synthesizes thinking on knowledge management and intellectual capital from a broad range of sources and identifies how human resource management can make a value-added contribution.

This critical approach to the study of human resource development emphasizes the need for its effective integration with human resource management, as well as with the strategic management of the organization. With special reference to workers in the "knowledge economy", the text draws readers through a reflection of human resource development's past and current organizational role and impact, analysing the role human resource development can play in an increasingly knowledge based environment.

Papers from the OECD conference on employment and growth in the knowledge-based economy, Copenhagen, November 1994

The third in the readers series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management Tools analyzes the use of knowledge management tools in the past, present and future. It helps managers and companies utilize what they know. The selections in this volume were carefully chosen to represent the strengths and weaknesses, and pros and cons of using technology to support knowledge-based activities. They acknowledge that, although tools alone are not the answer to the difficult questions surrounding knowledge management, if utilized effectively tools can open up new realms of innovation and efficiency for today's knowledge-driven businesses.

This book explains why it is possible, in terms of economic theory, and feasible, from the perspective of accounting practices, to implement new human capital information and decision-making systems.