Oct'19
Welcome to the IUP Journal of Knowledge Management
Focus
Systematic management of knowledge helps organizations to assess the business
opportunities and direct their employees in acquiring, sharing and using right
knowledge to improve individual performance and also the performance of the business processes, products and the organization as a whole. The organizations that initiate such systematic Knowledge Management (KM) should have proper direction and integrate all the resources to achieve the objective.
In the paper, �Employing Knowledge Management Road Map for Integrating KM Initiatives in a Holding Company: A Case Study of NWW, Iran�, the authors Amin Tuni Gure and Durga Prasad Sharma, present a case study on a large Iranian government holding organization, which has already developed the KM practices effectively. The paper details the methodology and integrated road map followed by the organization in implementing the KM initiatives in its subsidiaries in different provinces throughout Iran. The road map includes KM vision, mission, value propositions and also KM strategies developed to achieve KM vision and actions for implementing those KM strategies. It is reported that the organization developed tools for governing KM activities and used KM software for facilitating knowledge in its subsidiaries, and the road map still needs to be revised and improved.
The authors, Edward Lorenz and Erika Kraemer-Mbula, in their paper, �Employee Learning and Enterprise Innovation Performance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries�, highlight the significance of knowledge and its management in organizing school events. The knowledge of the organizers who have previously organized the events is reported as a valuable resource for organizing the future events more effectively. The authors develop a model that suits the culture of an educational institution and also select suitable technological tools to implement KM methodology. The methodology is developed on the basis of organizational culture, people and technology. The documented libraries and metadata taxonomies act as KM tools that include the experiences of previous organizers. It is reported that the institution under study generated interest in taking advantage of knowledge in terms of lessons learned and good practices for effective organization of events by avoiding repetition of errors of past events and documenting new knowledge for application in the future.
Many organizations have realized the significance of knowledge as an important organizational asset being generated and renewed by the employees who are treated as knowledge workers. In view of this, the Human Resources (HR) management area in any organization needs to not only manage the HR but also their knowledge. In the paper, �Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience Against Seasonal Flooding: The Case of Southeastern Coast of Bangladesh�, the authors, Prabal Barua and Syed Hafizur Rahman, examine the awareness of KM practices among HR managers in select companies of Mysore city in South India. Based on the analysis of the survey data collected through a questionnaire, they found considerable awareness of KM practices and a positive attitude among the HR managers. HR managers are found to be aware of the importance of KM practices to their organization in building good organizational culture and working environment for easy access and sharing of knowledge in order to solve problems and make quick decisions.
At present, proper management of knowledge can enable entrepreneurs learn, modify and improve while developing new ventures. According to Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1989), cognitive psychology helps researchers in understanding the way decisions are made and the way decision making is improved. In their paper, �Venture Creation Decision Models: Cognitive Approach�, the authors, Haj Brahim Abdallah, Brahmi Halima and Missaoui Ibtissem, have presented an overview of major entrepreneurial decision models and their support for the entrepreneurs to create new ventures. They report that Venture Creation Decision, a new paradigm in entrepreneurship to generate original knowledge and a developed practice, is the most conveyable and developed model to explain in detail the linkage between antecedents like formal and institutional and entrepreneurial scripts. They conclude that the entrepreneurial decision making can act as a scientific paradigm to investigate and understand key questions in entrepreneurship.
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| Assessment of Knowledge Sharing Practices in Higher Learning Institutions: A New Exploratory Framework � AT-DP KSPF |
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| Employee Learning and Enterprise Innovation Performance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
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| Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience Against Seasonal Flooding: The Case of Southeastern Coast of Bangladesh |
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Assessment of Knowledge Sharing Practices in Higher Learning Institutions: A New Exploratory Framework � AT-DP KSPF
Today, knowledge management and Knowledge Sharing (KS) have emerged as one of the most important areas in knowledge management practices and are seen as a basic resource for the organization�s competitive advantage all across the world. Therefore, to be competent, organizations need to manage and utilize knowledge for increasing their probability of success. KS is a major component of knowledge management because having knowledge is meaningless unless it is shared and allowed to be used by others. The aim of this study is to assess and explore the existing KS practices among the staff of the academic institutions/universities. In addition, the study identifies the level/extent of KS practices, existing barriers that hinder KS practices and technologies that facilitate sharing of knowledge. The study applies descriptive research design for a cross-sectional survey to describe the phenomenon and mixed (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) research approach for knowledge exploration from the collected data. The findings of the study i.e., an Amin Tuni-Durga Prasad Knowledge Sharing Practices Framework (AT-DP KSPF), reveal that universities� academic staff are not satisfied with the existing KS practices. In addition, no motivational scheme is observed for KS, and also individual, organizational and technological factors are significantly found to be hampering sharing of knowledge.
Employee Learning and Enterprise Innovation Performance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Worker skills and experience-based learning are fundamental and neglected dimensions of national innovation systems. This neglect reflects the tendency in innovation studies research to focus primarily on the role of formal R&D and the inputs of scientists and engineers with third-level education in explaining innovation performance at both the micro and macro levels. This perspective is poorly suited to investigate innovation activity in less developed countries and in particular in SMEs which often innovate without undertaking formal R&D. This paper focuses on the importance of Doing, Using and Interacting (DUI) mode of learning for innovation performance in less developed countries. It characterizes the nature of employee skills and experience-based learning in 11 low- and middle-income nations and explores their links with innovation activity by developing aggregate indicators at the national level. The indicators of experience-based learning are derived from the results of the surveys carried out through the World Bank�s STEP measurement program, the first ever effort to measure workplace skills in low and middle-income nations with large-scale representative datasets. The STEP surveys provide a unique resource for characterizing employees� work activity in terms of such generic features as the degree of learning, problem-solving activity and the exercise of autonomy in daily work activity. The rates of innovation at the national level are derived from the results of the World Bank Enterprise Surveys carried out in the same 11 nations during the same period of time. The results point to systemic links between the nature and extent of employee learning on the one hand, and innovation performance on the other.
Indigenous Knowledge for Community Resilience Against Seasonal Flooding: The Case of Southeastern Coast of Bangladesh
The scale of environmental challenges that our planet faces is best mirrored by its effects on the local communities. One of the most affected groups of people is the coastal communities of Bangladesh that are often exposed to various environmental threats simultaneously. Their response to these environmental threats eventually determines the level of damage, which in turn illustrates the severity of the threat. Therefore, efficient coping is the key, and understanding how coping strategies are constructed is of crucial importance in hazard mitigation. Qualitative methods of semi-structured interviews and participant observation were used in the course of the current study. Of the three types of coping strategies (prevention, adaption and migration), prevention was found to be mostly employed by households that are less exposed to risk, while adaption and migration were common strategies at the most exposed households. Based on the interview results and the participant observation, three coping profiles were created with regard to the level of vulnerability. It was found that the strategies are dynamically changing, and a continuous coping development path was identified from the most vulnerable stages till the least vulnerable ones. Thus, it is crucial to approach these strategies as stages of a long and natural process, rather than as stationary attributes of the population. The results may provide useful tools, information and recommendations for local policy makers in order to create a more inclusive and effective hazard mitigation strategy for the affected population.