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Exploring the Experiences Technology Managers Need to Transfer Tacit Knowledge within Technology Organization
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Mustapha, Rafiu Aderemi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Despite the well-established benefits of technological advances, a lack of adequate tacit knowledge sharing is one of the major setbacks affecting the development of human capital in technology industries. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the experiences technology managers will need to support the transfer of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Education, Human Capital, Informal Education
In Pursuit of the Individual in the Field of Knowledge Management
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Rechberg, Isabel D. W.; Syed, Jawad – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2012
The aim of this paper is to explore the focus on individuals in the field of knowledge management (KM). Through a meta-review of the KM literature, we identify a relative disregard of the individual in the KM literature while information technology (IT) oriented concepts are widely represented. Our review indicates the need for a greater emphasis…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Information Technology, Databases, Evaluation
Transformative Pedagogy, Leadership and School Organisation for the Twenty-First-Century Knowledge-Based Economy: The Case of Singapore
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Dimmock, Clive; Goh, Jonathan W. P. – School Leadership & Management, 2011
Singapore has a high performing school system; its students top international tests in maths and science. Yet while the Singapore government cherishes its world class "brand", it realises that in a globally competitive world, its schools need to prepare students for the twenty-first-century knowledge-based economy (KBE). Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Information Technology, Knowledge Management
Intellectual Capital and Corporate Performance in Knowledge-Intensive SMEs
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Cohen, Sandra; Kaimenakis, Nikolaos – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: In recent years a significant number of intellectual capital (IC) metrics has been developed and applied in many organizations. However, there is still a strong need to specify the relations among the different categories of intellectual assets that exist in the context of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME), and to determine the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Human Capital, Intellectual Property
E-Learning: Organizational Requirements for Successful Feedback Learning
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Cegarra-Navarro, Juan G.; Sabater-Sanchez, Ramon – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: Feedback learning transforms social knowledge into individual knowledge. In this process, tension arises because the current knowledge impedes the assimilation of new learning. Therefore, the feedback requires what Schumpeter refers to as "creative destruction": discarding, or at least setting aside, the institutional order to enact…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Systems, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Management
The Spread of Contingent Work in the Knowledge-Based Economy
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Szabo, Katalin; Negyesi, Aron – Human Resource Development Review, 2005
Permanent employment, typical of industrial societies and bolstered by numerous social guaranties, has been declining in the past 2 decades. There has been a steady expansion of various forms of contingent work. The decomposition of traditional work is a logical consequence of the characteristic patterns of the knowledge-based economy. According…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Role, Employment Patterns