Knowledge Management Components and Their Impact on Work Engagement of Employees

Maja  Rožman; Zhanna Shmeleva; Polona  Tominc

Maja Rožman
Zhanna Shmeleva
Polona Tominc

Keywords: knowledge management, knowledge management components, employees

Abstract

In light of globalization and modern business, companies are typically exposed to challenges caused by unpredictable and complex competitive environments. The business environment, with global trends and stringent competition in the world market, now faces significant changes that companies should introduce into their current business operations. Among them, the human resource management of knowledge employees has become extremely important. The main aim of this article is to establish the impact of components of knowledge management on work engagement of employees in Slovenian companies. In the empirical part of the research, a sample of 112 Slovenian companies was obtained. Senior managers of companies and their employees were surveyed, using the questionnaire developed based on existing measurement scales. The results will help us to better understand the importance of knowledge management in Slovenian companies and its importance as a business strategy that must be fully integrated within all of the employees’ related processes of the company.

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Author Biographies

Maja Rožman

University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenija
E-mail: maja.rozman1@um.si

Maja Rožman has acquired her Master degree at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor at the Department of Finance and the PhD at the Department of Management and Organization. She is also a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Department of Quantitative Economic Analyses. Her research work is focused on contemporary management problems in organisations, especially in the field of human resource management.

Zhanna Shmeleva

Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Department of Foreign Languages at the Center of International Links and Business, Russia
E-mail: shmelevazhanna@mail.ru

Zhanna Shmeleva is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Center of International Links and Business, Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Her research is focused on the methods of effective teaching in the field of foreign languages and on the social-philosophical analysis of the language as a phenomenon, which includes informative and communicative components. She has published over 150 original scientific papers, 30 textbooks, and three monographs and has participated at several scientific conferences.

Polona Tominc

University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia
E-mail: polona.tominc@um.si

Polona Tominc, PhD, is a full-time professor in the Department of Quantitative Economic Analysis at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. Her research is focused on statistical methods in economics and business sciences, especially in the field of entrepreneurship, gender differences, and behavioural differences between social groups in different fields of management. She has published over 60 original scientific papers, with several of them in the Scopus or WoS databases, and has participated in several scientific conferences. She is an author or co-author of monograph publications and of chapters in scientific monographs. She is a team member of DIANA international research group, aimed at researching women entrepreneurship, and a member of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Slovenia research team. She leads the research program “Entrepreneurship for Innovative Society.”

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