47 What if any are the challenges for HRM and IHRM practitioners vis a vis apt HR policy on knowledge management; coordination of knowledge assets and developing functional interdependencies between human employees and non-human ‘employees’ in achieving organisational goals and objectives?

Various writers such as Spender’s (1998) and Blackler (1995) posit useful frameworks on knowledge from both an individual and social (collective) perspective Knowledge can be tacit or explicit. Explicit Knowledge is knowledge that is easy to articulate, write down, and share. Tacit Knowledge on the other hand is knowledge gained from personal experience that is more difficult to express.