Activate Knowledge Workers: Transformation and Human Resource Management for Technology-Driven Companies

Author: Lin Zeyan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Individuals combine to form groups, and in a sense, it is to overcome the insignificance of the individual. The display of group strength and the improvement of group activity efficiency rely on human self-management and the scientific management of others. The efficiency of scientific management of others is based on the self-management of individuals. Due to human individuality, collectivity, and sociality, how to manage people and effectively and greatly "activate people" has become an enduring management challenge for humanity, which is precisely the key goal of modern human resource management and its institutional development. Countless sages and practitioners from all over the world, driven by their passion for truth, have not shied away from people's "ridicule" or even personal attacks, still preaching and striving around "activating people." We, these beneficiaries of the "common people," should remember the spirit of "tolerance" advocated by Mr. de Crèvec?ur and never regret afterward, saying, "It was he who saved us, but it was us who killed him." We should not only encourage and pay attention to their efforts but also participate in them to pursue a better new world. Perhaps this is the true essence of "tolerance"—achieving "human liberation." Based on this belief, we strive to practice the teachings of management master Peter Drucker: "Strive for perfection, though perfection always eludes me." In the field of human resource management, we begin the arduous pursuit of "activating people." In terms of goal orientation, human resource management and "activating people" should be synonymous. Therefore, "activating people" has become a special "because of" and a widely discussed topic in the field of human resource management. It includes policies, principles, ideas, concepts, systems, technologies, tools, and more. But to distinguish ourselves from other publications and meet the needs of practical workers, we plan to write general principles and key core technologies, focusing on "activating specific groups" as the subject. Combining our long-term academic research and the lessons learned from providing consulting services to businesses for many years, we aim to compile a localized "Human Resource Activation Series" for Chinese enterprises, striving to integrate academic and popular, scientific and operational, theoretical and technical, independent and systematic, and original and compatible aspects. A beautiful life, a strong enterprise, and a prosperous nation are our eternal mission. May all like-minded colleagues walk alongside us. This is the preface.