Abstract: European Union gives priority to social policy, labor and employment, human resource development. The growing unemployment figures in most of European Union countries provide the need to overview possibilities to strengthen control and more efficiently regulate unemployment. Recently, active labor market policies (ALMP) are increasingly applied to the broader macro-economic, employment and social policy objectives. Active labor market policy measures include vocational training, employment promotion, direct job creation, business support for new entrepreneurs. Investing in ALMP measures is one of the most effective investments in labor market policy. Knowledge society and knowledge economy challenges change management models. Knowledge management could help to increase productiveness of employees, expanding sources of reachable for them knowledge. Human resource development and effective human resource management theory of mobility models for the coordination and efficiency of their practical application depends on the ability of organizations to integrate human resource management and knowledge management models. ALMP measures are directly linked to the learning process, innovation, ideas and competencies. Active labor market supports the management of individual or group learning. Research indicates that vocational training is closely linked to job skills and employment promotion subsidies. The principles of knowledge management (knowledge construction, knowledge embodiment, knowledge dissemination and use) disposed of the active labor market system. It can be argued that the only successful model of knowledge management can ensure the success of ALMP. In his article the author examines ALMP and knowledge management model, communication and applications.

Keywords: knowledge society, knowledge management, active social policy, labor market, active labor market policy.

ACM Classification Keywords: K.4.2. Social issues – Employment.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICY DEVELOPMENT FACTOR

Tatjana Bilevičienė, Eglė Bilevičiūtė

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