Abstract:
The terms ‘human resource management’ (HRM) and ‘human resources’ (HR) have largely
replaced the term ‘personnel management’ as a description of the processes involved in
managing people in organizations. Human Resource (HR) management deals with the design of
formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to
accomplish organizational goals. In an organization, the management of human resources
means that they must be recruited, compensated, trained, and developed. In recent years, the
meaning of the term knowledge management has been debated, defined, and redefined
repeatedly. In general knowledge management can be taken as the tools, techniques, and
strategies to retain, analyze, organize, improve, and share business expertise. Human resource
management can make an important contribution to knowledge management simply because
knowledge is shared between people; it is not just a matter of capturing explicit knowledge
through the use of information technology. From this point of view the role of human resource
management is to ensure that the organization has the intellectual capital it needs.This paper
looks at some of the ways in which HR can revise its own systems and practices to ensure that
they have a knowledge focus and reinforce the organisation’s overall knowledge management
goals.
