The research of the knowledge worker incentive strategy based on human capital characteristics

Abstract

The labor and industry structure are becoming increasingly "knowledge intensive" as the proportion of the "knowledge labor" and the "knowledge workers" is becoming bigger and bigger in modern production. They possess more residual rights of controls. In this case, the knowledge workers cannot be fully motivated merely by mandatory supervision or material award. As the new management philosophy is being accepted by an increasing number of people, the revolution and enhancement of the philosophy of human resources management are making fundamental changes on its status and functions. From the perspective of human capital, this paper analyses the characteristics of human capital, and put forward several human resource development strategies with the new philosophy of human resource management and the idea of human-oriented management about employees' participation in management, stock option incentive mechanism, and career development which provides a good reference to the modern enterprises. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.