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Knowledge management component in managing human resources for enterprises

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Both human resources and knowledge are valuable assets for enterprises; therefore, effective management of these assets becomes inevitably critical for business success. While human resource management systems have been a research topic for more than two decades, knowledge management systems applied to human resource management are relatively new to both academia and industry. This study examines the use of knowledge management in a business environment such as human resource management. The evolution of information systems and information processing in the human resource management domain is presented, and a knowledge-based decision support system for human resource management is proposed.

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This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grant 71132008.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Li Zhang

  2. School of Business and Economics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27411, USA

    Hong Wang

  3. School of Information, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, 650221, China

    Hong Wang & Kun Zhao

  4. School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Xiongfei Cao

  5. Transportation Management College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China

    Xin Wang

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Zhang, L., Wang, H., Cao, X. et al. Knowledge management component in managing human resources for enterprises. Inf Technol Manag 13, 341–349 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10799-012-0127-8

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