Abstract:

Knowledge and knowledge management are the key success factors for enterprises operating on the market today. As Drucker stated, in the 21st century, the most valuable assets of an organization are the knowledge worker and his performance. These types of employees should not be managed, but rather through proper leadership and the created working conditions, be provided with the opportunity to use their potential to the fullest.

In this paper, the attempt of identification and evaluation of selected elements of knowledge management was made. It presents the results of research in the area of general assumptions of the knowledge management system. A general analysis of the obtained results was performed, also the research results in the context of the size of enterprises and the type of their activities were presented. The study was made in the group of 105 enterprises located in the southern part of Poland.