Del 13 - Information Science and Knowledge Management

Communities of Practice

Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Noriko Hara

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1.1 Introduction Each year corporations spend millions of dollars training and educating their - ployees. On average, these corporations spend approximately one thousand dollars 1 per employee each year. As businesses struggle to stay on the cutting-edge and to keep their employees educated and up-to-speed with professional trends as well as ever-changing information needs, it is easy to see why corporations are investing more time and money than ever in their efforts to support their employees’ prof- sional development. During the Industrial Age, companies strove to control natural resources. The more resources they controlled, the greater their competitive edge in the mark- place. Senge (1993) refers to this kind of organization as resource-based. In the Information Age, companies must create, disseminate, and effectively use kno- edge within their organization in order to maintain their market share. Senge - scribes this kind of organization as knowledge-based. Given that knowledge-based organizations willcontinuetobeadrivingforcebehindtheeconomy, itisimperative that corporations support the knowledge and information needs of their workers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-10-13
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt401 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInformation Science and Knowledge Management
Antal sidor138
Upplaga2009
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783540854234

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Samhälle och kultur inom Samhalle och politik

For two decades or more managers and theorists have argued about the role of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in Knowledge Management: how and why do they work or not work? can or should they be managed? do they or do they not contribute to sustained learning? This lucid and compelling book clears up the mess. After setting the theoretic scene, Hara uses her considerable skill as a trained ethnographer to provide accounts of CoPs in action, observing and reporting on the work of both face-to-face and online communities. She shows how CoPs produce, sustain and develop cultural knowledge in a process of localized organizational learning that supports members through good times and bad. Hara is a talented writer: the extended accounts of work in Public Defender work in two different County Courts are compelling reading. Specialists and non-specialists alike can learn from this text: Hara’s emphasis on identity and culture and her findings on the specific and varied effects of IT in Communities of Practice are important contributions to thinking about KM. Elisabeth DavenportProfessor EmeritusNapier University, Edinburgh