Achmad Fajar Hendarman|Jann Hidajat Tjakraatmadja
Relationship among Soft Skills, Hard Skills, and Innovativeness of Knowledge Workers in the Knowledge Economy Era
Bandung Institute of Technology|Bandung Institute of Technology
last two hundred years neoclassical economics recognized two factors production labor capital nowadays information knowledge replacing capital energy primary wealthcreating assets technological developments transformed wealthcreating work physicallybased knowledge based technology knowledge well innovation key factors production knowledge economy economy based creating evaluating trading knowledge knowledge economy labour costs become progressively less important traditional economic concepts scarcity resources economies scale economy cease apply valuable asset 21stcentury institution either business nonbusiness knowledge workers productivity knowledge workers productivity biggest 21st century management challenges developed countries first survival requirement making knowledge workers productive requires changes attitude part individual knowledge worker also part whole organization drucker 1999 httpwwwknowledgeworkerperformancecom creating knowledge relates education system creates knowledge workers innovation system example soft skills worker behaviour positive psychological capital luthan et al 2007 hard skill ict literacy innovation system contributes innovativeness country consists institutions rules procedures affect system acquires creates disseminates uses knowledge objectives research develop conceptual model describse relationship among soft skills knowledge workers hard skills knowledge workers innovativeness knowledge workers context knowledge economy indonesia developing country multiple regression analysis used method research conceptual model designed independent dependent variables independent variables hard skills information seeking hard skills concept thinking soft skills self efficacy positive psychological capital dependent variables technical innovativeness product services nontechnical innovativeness organization marketing one company subject research becomes limitation study research findings information seeking soft skill positively influnced technical innovativeness hard skills positively influenced nontechnical innovativeness