Human Resources Management in the Knowledge Management
Keywords:
human resources management, knowledge management, knowledge economyAbstract
Knowledge is increasingly claimed to be a key critical resource and source of competitive advantage in the modern global economy, especially with the rise of the service economy, the growth in the number of ‘knowledge workers’, the increasingly rapid flow of global information, and the growing recognition of the importance of intellectual capital and intellectual property rights. Knowledge, with its intangible aspects, is becoming a defining characteristic of economic activities, as opposed to tangibles such as goods, services or production processes. The rise of the knowledge economy has seen a proliferation of information and communication technologies, coupled with greater organizational complexity, the growth of virtual and global organizations and rapid change. This in turn requires drastic change within HRM to respond to changing demands of the knowledge economy. The concrete functional areas of management a personnel are in-process investigational, helping to answer on the calls of the modern world, the role of process of management a personnel is in particular certain in small and middle enterprises, including at introduction on the enterprise of innovative constituent of his future development.References
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