Purpose – Reflection on the trend towards recycling knowledge without realising it, and on not recognising past …

This paper contributes to the development of the knowledge management and human resource management literatures through … developing the linkages between them. Increasingly it is being acknowledged that the success of knowledge management initiatives … is fundamentally predicated on having workers who are prepared to share their knowledge. It is suggested that HRM …

to re‐align work, organisation and management for an era where knowledge management is predominant. The issue of line …

As human resource management (HRM) and knowledge management are still new areas of research, if we assume the co …'s strategic intent could be to maximise the contribution of employee's knowledge and skills, through creating competitive … advantage by utilising human capital. The challenge of “capturing” employee's tacit knowledge, to facilitate its transfer into …

Most discussions of knowledge, knowledge management and knowledge transfer, especially of human resource management … (HRM) knowledge and its transfer, have failed to consider them in a cross‐cultural context. After a discussion of this …, especially in the Mauritian Civil Service, and uses this case not only to identify some of the limits to cross‐cultural knowledge …

Research on multinational corporation (MNC) knowledge transfer has argued continuously for the behavior of knowledge … senders to be a determinant of knowledge transfer. Although the importance of disseminative capacity regarding knowledge … organizational actors to transfer knowledge where and when it is needed in the organization. Using the context of expatriation …

Purpose – This paper sets out, first, to integrate HR strategies into knowledge management (KM) systems; second, to … the creation, distribution and use of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses recent literature on … emphasis on knowledge storage, technical skills, as well as distributing explicit knowledge via IT solutions. This increases …

/methodology/approach – An interview study of 42 in‐house and external lawyers is reported and set within contexts of the knowledge management … highest priority to the protection of resources and knowledge and aim to achieve it through trust in work relationships and by … sharing, diffusing and controlling knowledge. By contrast, issues concerning individual reward and empowerment were seen as …

Purpose – The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of hybrid knowledge management in workers … implementation of the Communication and Knowledge Motivator (CKM) model in Hellenic Railways Organization (2004 and 2008). Survey …

Purpose – The knowledge economy and the knowledge work that fuels it have created much debate in relation to the types … of workers it requires and how they should be managed. The central issue is that “knowledge workers” are only valuable … while possessing a body of knowledge to utilise in the process of their work. The management of workers with knowledge runs …