摘要：The question of knowledge management has become a highlighted issue in the companies’ everyday life.Knowledge itself is the most important capital of organizations,and acquiring,developing and preserving it means a lot of tasks and requirements for the companies.The complex activities of the knowledge management system appear with different priorities in the practice of companies,which depend on the company’s circle of activities,its organizational structure,its innovative willingness,the content of HR,and some others.However,it is a fact that preserving and keeping employees’ knowledge is one of the most emphasized areas of a knowledge management system in companies.This issue especially becomes highlighted when an employee leaves the company.How and what can be done in order not to lose the knowledge she possesses representing value for the company? Is there an already elaborated protocol at companies for managing this issue or is it possible that companies are not aware of the importance of this problem? Similar ideas and thoughts have motivated this research,which had the aim to recognize how knowledge preserving operates at Hungarian companies in a special life situation during the knowledge-transfer of employees leaving the company with the reason of child-care.The results of qualitative and quantitative researches justified that companies usually do not calculate on losing knowledge if a woman goes on child-care leave for shorter or longer period of time;although they are aware of the fact that not all the knowledge of the would-be mothers remain at the company.
关键词：The question of knowledge management has become a highlighted issue in the companies’ everyday life.Knowledge itself is the most important capital of organizations,and acquiring,developing and preserving it means a lot of tasks and requirements for the companies.The complex activities of the knowledge management system appear with different priorities in the practice of companies,which depend on the company’s circle of activities,its organizational structure,its innovative willingness,the content of HR,and some others.However,it is a fact that preserving and keeping employees’ knowledge is one of the most emphasized areas of a knowledge management system in companies.This issue especially becomes highlighted when an employee leaves the company.How and what can be done in order not to lose the knowledge she possesses representing value for the company? Is there an already elaborated protocol at companies for managing this issue or is it possible that companies are not aware of the importance of this problem? Similar ideas and thoughts have motivated this research,which had the aim to recognize how knowledge preserving operates at Hungarian companies in a special life situation during the knowledge-transfer of employees leaving the company with the reason of child-care.The results of qualitative and quantitative researches justified that companies usually do not calculate on losing knowledge if a woman goes on child-care leave for shorter or longer period of time;although they are aware of the fact that not all the knowledge of the would-be mothers remain at the company.
