Abstrakt:
This article focuses on finding the elements of knowledge management in schools of management thinking. Attention is first paid to the characteristics of knowledge management and its elements are subsequently searched in approaches to management have been described since the Industrial Revolution until the emergence of knowledge society. It is therefore a classic management, psychosocial approaches, process approaches and system approaches. Conclusions are presented at the end of the article in the table. Although the emergence of knowledge management is dated from about the sixties of last century, when it was defined by P. Drucker, indicating the elements we work with the knowledge to identify much earlier. It is good to know the specifics of each school of management thinking today.