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Knowledge management in organizations : a critical introduction / Donald Hislop.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013].Edition: Third EditionDescription: xx, 284 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780198724018
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4038 23 H6731k
Contents:
The contemporary importance of knowledge and knowledge management -- Epistemologies of knowledge in the knowledge management literature. The objectivist perspective on knowledge -- The practice-based perspective on knowledge -- An introduction to key concepts. What is knowledge management? -- Knowledge-intensive firms and knowledge workers -- Learning and knowledge management -- Knowledge creation and organizational unlearning. Nonaka and knowledge creation theory -- Unlearning and the deliberate loss of knowledge -- Socio-cultural issues related to managing and sharing knowledge. The influence of socio-cultural factors in motivating workers to participate in knowledge management initiatives -- Communities of practice -- Cross-community, boundary-spanning knowledge processes -- Power, politics, conflict, and knowledge process -- Information and communication technologies and knowledge management -- Facilitating knowledge management via the use of human resource management practices -- Leadership, organization culture management, and knowledge management -- Reflections on the topic of knowledge management.
List(s) this item appears in: Management | Human resource Management
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 658.4038 H6731k 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 027051
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Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

The contemporary importance of knowledge and knowledge management -- Epistemologies of knowledge in the knowledge management literature. The objectivist perspective on knowledge -- The practice-based perspective on knowledge -- An introduction to key concepts. What is knowledge management? -- Knowledge-intensive firms and knowledge workers -- Learning and knowledge management -- Knowledge creation and organizational unlearning. Nonaka and knowledge creation theory -- Unlearning and the deliberate loss of knowledge -- Socio-cultural issues related to managing and sharing knowledge. The influence of socio-cultural factors in motivating workers to participate in knowledge management initiatives -- Communities of practice -- Cross-community, boundary-spanning knowledge processes -- Power, politics, conflict, and knowledge process -- Information and communication technologies and knowledge management -- Facilitating knowledge management via the use of human resource management practices -- Leadership, organization culture management, and knowledge management -- Reflections on the topic of knowledge management.

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