The relationship among the Taiwan¡¦s multinational corporations¡¦ knowledge management and the organization¡¦s role of human resource management Abstract Today, the commercial environment face the change of globalization, according to improve the corporations¡¦ efficiency and performance, corporations will transfer the core competences and the knowledge of operation practices inside the organization to others organization units, especially to the multinational corporations. Based on Drucker (1993) said, the knowledge workers are the most important property inside the organization. The knowledge need the appropriate persons to practice, creating and storing, so, how to keep the good person and integrate their knowledge inside the organization, that need ¡¨ human resource management system¡¨ to process. This research chose four multinational corporations which nationality is Taiwan. These four company coming from: the traditional livelihood industry; the traditional infrastructure industry; the high-tech manufacturer and information software research and development industry. This research concludes some propositions through the interview with top managers of these sample corporations. Positions are as follows: Proposition 1: the more explicit that the core knowledge inside organization was, the more complete that the information technology infrastructure done, the more possible that the corporation will take the system knowledge management strategy; the more tacit that the core knowledge inside organization was, the more important the tacit system was, such as, the organization culture, pay attention to the people and so on, to force the knowledge management. Proposition 2: the more that the core competition of the enterprises tends to be the market exploration, the easier they will use the partial step-by-step knowledge management strategy. the more that the core competition of the enterprises tend to be the technology exploration, the easier they will use the integral system knowledge management strategy. Proposition 3: the more complex that the need of global knowledge originality strategy (the localize and the global integrate level increased),the stronger that the effect of human resource management coordinate and control. Proposition 4: the role that the knowledge management organization plays in an enterprise follows the different executive step of the knowledge management in the enterprise has its different position. Proposition 5: the higher that the level of the enterprise knowledge management systematize ,the greater that the role of human resource management plays .besides, the higher that the level of personalizing of the enterprise knowledge management system, the greater that the roll of human resource management in strategetical execution. Proposition 6: the strategy about knowledge management of the enterprise and the human capital of the enterprise are to complement each other. From the six propositions, we can derive the following two important conclusion: 1. By the diversification of the knowledge management, the organization should select that can adopt to its characteristic of knowledge and compare to its competition strategy of knowledge management strategy. So that it can afford positive promotion of organization management achievements. Besides, the organization should transform to organic organization to construct the opening culture makes benefits of the knowledge flow; the organization should make his endeavor to build up the culture of edution to make learning and effective interaction to all action of the member in the organization and the manager should promote his own leadership. 2. The diversified roll of the human resource management, in the recruited policy, we pay more attention on the potential of staff and the corresponding of culture of education to make more benefits to carry out knowledge management. In the training, the develop scheme which is centered by the staff makes each member can be the knowledge contributor to pass the values toward the knowledge of the organization in the courses. Plot and connect the achievement system. The human resource professional should make progress with knowledge management science. Besides, we should progress the step task toward the strategy of knowledge management and realize the situation of the knowledge management proceeded in the organization. From inside of this, we can position the roll of human resource management organization and cooperate with the strategy of the company knowledge management to derive the hugest management result. Keyword: multinational knowledge management; knowledge flow, knowledge management strategy, knowledge workers, human resource management

The Study of Multinational Corporations¡¦ Knowledge Management ABSTRACT In order to look for lager space of growth and subsistence, Taiwanese corporations inevitably made direct investments in foreign countries and became members of worldwide multinational corporations (MNCs). According to their international expansion, the sources and distributions of these MNCs¡¦ resources and knowledge would not be limited by the boundaries among countries but be allocated effectively through two dimensions, Global Integration and Local Responsiveness. By twelve Taiwanese multinational corporations case study, the global integration and local responsiveness of multinational organizations¡¦ knowledge, the implementation situation of Knowledge Management, and the role of Human Resources Management while implementing Knowledge Management were all observed and discussed in this study. The proposition concluded by interviewing high-level managers of sample corporations are as follows: Proposition 1: The higher industrial technique maturity of multinational corporations is, the higher centralization of the allocation of corporations¡¦ resources and knowledge will be. Proposition 2: If the industrial technique maturity of multinational corporations is higher, explicit knowledge will be transferred across countries more than tacit knowledge. Proposition 3: The longer product life cycle of multinational corporations is, the more global integration ability of knowledge innovation strategy will be emphasized. Proposition 4: The higher local responsiveness need of multinational corporations¡¦ knowledge innovation strategy is, the higher ratio of value chain distributed in foreign subsidiaries will be. Proposition 5: The higher local responsiveness need of multinational corporations¡¦ knowledge innovation strategy is, the higher ratio of local employees hiring will be. Proposition 6: The more explicit knowledge of organization has, the more information technology infrastructure will be needed to implement knowledge management. The more tacit knowledge of organization has, the more important the tacit system will be, such as organizational culture, to implement knowledge management. Proposition 7: The corporations in technique growing industry will do knowledge processing in interactive way, and design the organization by commitment-base. Proposition 8: The role of human resources management will be more strategic during the early stage of knowledge management implementation. Proposition 9: If both of global integration and local responsiveness need of corporations¡¦ knowledge innovation strategy is required, the coordination and control role of human resources management will be more important.