4. By Hsiu-Chuan Lin

5.  Human Resource Management Strategy - used to effectively make use of human resources and to make and create strategic directions that will have the corporation’s continuous competitive advantage

6.  Three Categories of HRM Strategy AccumulationUtilizationFacilitation -Long term, lifetime -Excellent employees -Invest funds in training -emphasize on corporation’s culture instead of working skills - life long employment relationship -Short term -- external channel -- less emphasis on training and cultivation -- relationship is founded on the working skills -- high utilization of staff’s technique and short term demands -Long term, not for lifetime -- internal promotion and external recruitment -Provide financial and non financial resources for training - Maximize performance on the basis of production innovative knowledge

7.  Core Competencies - Integration of capabilities and accumulative knowledge - - strengthen customer’s core values, create differences from competitors and build up capacity to enter new markets.

8.  Three Types of Core Competencies A. Market- access Competencies B. Integrity- related Competencies C. Functionality-related Competencies

9.  H1: The corporation’s human resource strategy has a significant influence on their “market- access competencies” of core competencies.  H2: The corporation’s human resource strategy has a significant influence on their “integrity- related competencies” of core competencies.

10.  H3: The corporation’s human resource strategy has a significant influence on their “functionality- related competencies” of core competencies.  H4: The organization’s size will influence the relationship between the human resource strategies and core competencies of a corporation.  H5: The organization’s age will influence the relationship between the human resource strategies and core competencies of a corporation.

11.  Sample Population - Supervisors of the Human Resource Department of car component manufacturers in Taiwan  Data Gathering Method - Questionnaires

12. Hypothesis 1 to 5 were all supported  The human resource strategy have a significant influence on the market-access competencies, integrity-related competencies and functionality-related competencies.  The interaction effects between the organization’s size and age and different human resource strategies exist.

13. The study confirms that all car component companies have complete supporting measures for human resource management, regardless of the human resource management strategy they adopt. The effectiveness of human resource management can not only support the corporation’s marketing, logistics, and techniques but also the corporations set up a flexible process to provide their products and offer special values to their customers. The success of an organization is ascribed to a wise and farsighted leader, excellent technology, innovative products, excellent quality and impressive reputation.

14.  Improve the presentation of questionnaires to make the scale better and improve its reliable.  Choose different industries as study objects and do depth study on the company characteristics and size.