Title: THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN DEVELOPING HUMAN CAPITAL
Abstract: Organizations are constantly striving to develop and enhance knowledge of employees who involve in strategic business processes by which they aim for an organizational knowledge creation to achieve a competitive advantage. Accordingly, they encourage employees to involve in basic knowledge management (KM) processes and establish infrastructures for knowledge acquisition and sharing in order to broaden both human capital (HC) and organizational knowledge base. In this direction, the purpose of this paper is to describe creating and developing human capital in an organization through KM practices and to investigate whether there is an enforcing relationship between these two factors. The research method is descriptive design. The population of the research consists of 349 person of managers and senior experts of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development. A sample of 186 subjects was selected. According to the research findings it can be said that developing HC is occurring formally and informally in organization especially through the KM practices. And, there is an increasing relationship between KM and HC; so implementing an effective KM processes in organization will contribute to more developing HC.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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