抄録
This paper proposes the cause of discrepancy between Knowledge Management (KM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) to support cross-fertilization of them. Originally, KM and HRM should develop together and encourage each other, because knowledge is generated by human resource and its value can be established only through the use of it by human resource in a real society. However, previous academic research and business activity has dealt with KM and HRM independently, and they have not refer to their relationship. To reveal the cause of this discrepancy, we review previous literatures of KM and HRM to explore the central subject, its transition, and the background factor as the premise of research in each management domain. Through literature review, we found that the cause of this excess independency could systematically come from their research approach. Thus, previous researches have premised the uniformity of individuals who compose an organization, which provided the lack of consideration of individual capability, and they have not fully discussed the mechanism of realizing individual creativity and achieving performance. As a result, the view point of individual, which might connect two management domains, has been missed and KM and HRM could be recognized as independent research fields. Therefore, it is expected that to reveal thought process of creative individuals would work as a bridge between KM and HRM to promote mutual interaction in a real society.
