Abstract:

The highly dynamic and competitive business environment compels organizations to find new ways of ensuring the competiveness and success. A solution to these problems is adopting innovation as the main part of the organizational culture. A major driver for innovation is human resource and for innovation to be successful managers needs to support, plan and nurture an innovation culture. The research results presented in this paper approach the aspects related to the human resource management and its implication in the innovation performance in an organization. There is an obvious relation between innovation performance and human resources, more than that some activities in human resource management have a direct impact on the innovation process, the main activities have been identified and presented in this paper. It is important to recognize why success through human resources can be sustained and cannot readily be imitated by competitors. The reason is that the success that comes from managing people effectively is often not as visible or transparent as to its source.