Abstract:
Core competence has become the prevailing term in strategic management (SM) and human resource
management (HRM) literature. However, the exact meaning of the “core” term has been ambiguous to
researchers, educators, and practitioners. This article addresses the interpretations of “core” in SM and
HRM literature and adopts the Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) perspective to redefine
core competence and human competence as organizational and individual capabilities that create
organizational competitive advantage. We build a conceptual framework to show the relationship
between core competence and human competence, and provide business and management
implications.
