THE MUTUAL LINKAGE BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

This paper attempts to demonstrate the important mutual linkage between human resource management and knowledge management. As a result, first of all, the present paper reviews the relevant literature about human resource management; and knowledge management. In the next step, the influence of human resource management on knowledge management is described. Then, the impact of knowledge management on human resource management (HR practices) is clarified. Thereafter, by proposing a model, this paper illustrates the mutual linkage and integration between HRM and KM. Moreover, this paper states that such integration leads to firm’s superior performance. Finally, the current paper develops theoretical proposition that provide further insight, for managers of organizations, on integrating HR practices with knowledge management which contributes to organizational superior outcomes.