Knowledge Management for Human Resources:Profile of a Generation Z Employee.

Knowledge Management can be defined as the creation and subsequent management of an environment that encourages knowledge to be created, shared, learnt, enhanced, organized and utilized for the benefit of the organization and its employees. One of the KM objectives is to create and share knowledge to provide access to necessary resources, including human resources. With the world undergoing continual changes, technologies and employees' needs are changing too. Therefore, each enterprise should analyze them, which includes also the needs of potential employees and their way of working and cooperation. A skillful management of human resources plays an important role in today's enterprise. An enterprise is an organism that creates and protects values based on human relationships and financial indicators, which are the result of the quality of this cooperation. Employees' departures resulting from negative relationships cause businesses to incur many costs. In order to ensure appropriate human resources in an enterprise, some effort should be made to, among others, design and update the motivation system. If that is to happen, firstly, all activities in companies should be coordinated. Also employees' key motivators should be discovered and known. KM in this area helps both to maximize the retention of employees and define the achievement of enterprise objectives. The main goal of this paper is to create the Generation Z profile of a job candidate. The paper also aims to carry out an analysis of the needs of young people entering the labour market, which are related to their work and career development. This knowledge may be used by companies to design motivation systems for the purpose of employee-retention and ensure human resources to achieve the objectives of organizations. The study was carried out on a group of 3393 respondents learning in technical schools in the most popular specializations which are needed by entrepreneurs in the Wielkopolska Region. All potential job candidates are classified as Generation Z born after 2000. This particular group has not been widely described in the literature yet. The article features a literature review related to the research topics. It also presents the characteristics of the research method and research results which were obtained on the basis of a few thousands of questionnaires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]