Human Resource or Human Asset

There is an established function known as "Human Resource Management (HRM)" in every organization which manages the human resources of the organization from the perspective of growth and development. The philosophy of this function is pretty clear, making use of professionals as resources with a view to achieve organizational goals. This is quite a successful formula to develop professionals in any enterprise management framework where the enterprise bound by limitations has very little scope to offer to professionals beyond the scope of the organization. However, professionals in knowledge economy have the freedom to think beyond obvious. They can contribute to the industry in any manner they want. When there is a win-win situation, both the organization and the professional have synergic effect. However, many a times it is evident in production centric environment that organizational demand gets priority over the expectations of the professionals. In this process, professionals have to compromise and forego many of their dreams for the sake of 'organizational spirit'. Knowledge economy has put the professionals ahead of the organization. The contribution of the organization is very much dependant on what the professionals can offer. In the process, a professional uses the organization as a channel to reach the customers who are located inside an industrial framework. A typical HRM framework fails to address this space. These three separate entities, the professional, the channel and the Industry are required to be continuously monitored for the assessment of the growth of any 'human resource' aspiring to become an 'human asset' . The level of priority of each creates various combinations for a professional to develop his career path.
Any person has to create his own capability to survive in any growing business situation. When the capability is acceptable by the benefactor, a customer, the initiation process for development of a human asset starts. However, at the initial stage, he needs a channel to reach the customer in the form of an organization. His capability and organizational requirement have to match for such combination to work. The customer is an entity who gets benefited by the knowledge of the professional and the organization gradually becomes a secondary entity to the customer.