Human Resource Management in Knowledge Transfer

Luu Trong Tuan

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Abstract: The competency to transfer knowledge and learn from their experience has been found to influence crucial organizational outcomes, including productivity, timeliness, and sustainability. A multiplex approach to knowledge transfer is likely to be most effective. Personal contacts or movement and face-to face communication are rich communication media that are particularly well suited for discerning information to be transferred and acquiring a deep understanding of it. Thus, this paper proposes to investigate knowledge transfer in Foreign Multinational Corporations (MNCs) network. Knowledge characteristics of personnel being transferred also impact the success of knowledge transfer.
Key words: Human resource management (hrm); Organizational knowledge; Knowledge transfer; Foreign Multinational Corporations (MNCs)

Keywords


Human resource management (hrm); Organizational knowledge; Knowledge transfer; Foreign Multinational Corporations (MNCs)

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