Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Human Resource Management Practices: Competence-Based Approach

Abstract

Goal of the research: To understand the influence of particular human resource management roles in the process of achieving different types of sustainable competitive advantage. Main tasks of the research: • Find out theoretical relations between sustainable competitive advantage of the company and its HR management; • Understand the concept of sustainable competitive advantage, competence modes theory and competence based approach to the human resource management; Formulate the criteria for the assessment; • Develop a model of the relationship and questionnaire for the empirical assessment; • Prepare and conduct series of in-depth interviews with experienced in the issue company to prove theoretical findings and finalize the tools for the quantitative research; • Analyze potential bottlenecks of the survey and limitations of the research; • Collect and analyzed the data on the proposed questionnaire; Make the conclusions on influence of different human resource management roles on sustainable advantage of the company; Analyze the relations of human resource management roles with different competence modes in the organization; • Prepare recommendation for the future research in the field. Results: • Literature on sustainable competitive advantage, core competences, competence management, competence-based HR management was analyzed; • Empirical model and the survey for quantitative analysis were developed; • In-depth interviews were proceeded; • Quantitative analysis of data was made; • Main results, theoretical and empirical implications were discussed.