KM and HRM: an article

KM and Human Resources Management: some pieces and thoughts (bold is mine)

There is understandably, a considerable overlap between human resources and knowledge management since

• Knowledge creation is a human activity and managing humans is a HR activity.
• Knowledge management is about management of intellectual capital and intangible assets and human resources management is about managing the sources of these assets.

This one I like :)

Knowledge management and human resources management initiatives are focused on harnessing the available knowledge assets and to prevent knowledge from walking out of the door. Hence, there is a need for the integration between the knowledge management initiatives and the HR policies of the organisation.

Links between HR and KM initiatives:

• KM and HR systems – using KM system to handle HR data
• recruitment – selecting people with right attitude
• retention – retaining not experts, but knowledge sharing experts
• reward system – recognising and promoting employees who adopt new behavior
• performance management systems – changing performance measures to measure “right KM” performance
• KM and organisational structure - adapting to leverage the value to knowledge
• KM and organisational culture – changing with focus on trust and knowledge sharing
• training and organisational learning  – this one I don’t understand
• exit – debriefing people and capturing their knowledge before they leave

Finally: was nice to read, but the quality is bad. I should think if I can refer to it…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/07/29.html#a81; comments are here.

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Tagged as: KM & learning