Innovation in Human Resource Management Functions ‎in Knowledge-Based Enterprises

Knowledge in the economies of the countries is of great importance, and knowledge base enterprises as knowledge producers and commercializes have a strong role in the knowledge economy. The executives of knowledge base enterprises are expert people with technical expertise who do not necessarily have much knowledge about management functions. Human resource management is one of the main functions of management, which predicts the failure and success of these companies.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process of human resource management in knowledge base enterprises. The main question is: what processes of human resource management are carried out and prioritized. Also, this paper examines the effect of HR departments and the number of human resources on the performance of human resources management processes.
The sample of this research is about 168 managers and experts of human resource management in knowledge base enterprises.
The results of this study showed that employing functions, recruitment interviews, application schedules, staff structure and payment, contingency and positional payments, and rewards for specific groups are performed in over 90% of these companies. The results showed that the functions of the staff classification and payment structure, employee benefits and retirement plan, bonus management system, employee communication and health and safety, the existence or absence of a unit of HRM affects them.
Since this research explores the functions of HRM in separately, these results are beneficial for researchers as well as for managers of these companies. Also, policymakers use the results of this research to empower these companies in a targeted way.