Knowledge Management and Motivation

Abstract

It is recognized the importance of motivation for development of people in their life and for good performance of their work at organizations. With this work, it pretends to approach the linkage between knowledge management (km) and motivation. We concluded that any organization that wants to get the best workers, mainly knowledge workers must create policies to motivate them before their admission to organization and during their presence there. To make knowledge workers always motivated, the organizations should implement policies with incidence in their salary, rewards, organizational environment (e.g. good conditions for work) to make decisions through empowerment policies, internal recognize of their work, by making them feel that can be entrepreneurs in organizational projects or by implementing own projects with financial support of their organizations.