The Effective Scheme of Modeling for Human Resource Development ―Theoretical Framework centered on Hub Persons―

Abstract

Modeling has been playing a crucial role in human resource development. It has long been thought that people learn various things from watching responsive actions that serve as models (examples for imitation). This is because people understand and learn the various responses of models as information, and, depending on circumstances, people may even upgrade the responses they have witnessed and retain them in their heads as their own future action rules. However, under the current corporate environmental changes, the condition is such that the conventional approach to modeling is rendered difficult because the grooming of models themselves is not possible.

Based on the knowledge gained through the application of network theory, this study focuses on hubs created within an organization. Unlike the conventional modeling that emphasizes direct learning by observing the model as is, the new way of learning captures the wide variety of circumstances facing the persons regarded as the hubs and their corresponding responsive actions as pieces of linguistic information, and visualize/reproduce them in one’s head, and then, turn them into resources to create one’s own action rules. Based on the aforesaid method, this study presents the effective scheme of modeling for human resource development