Beyond Knowledge Management

Author: (USA) Garvey / (USA) Williamson / Zhang Yongjun / Zhang Yongmei
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The works of Garey and Williamson represent an important and urgently needed advanced perspective in the culture of knowledge management. This book broadens the complex social scope of how organizations generate, disseminate, and maintain useful cultures. The erudite and practical authors present the book's themes from a diverse theoretical and knowledge-based viewpoint, thus reflecting its inherent complexity. At the same time, the book describes the importance of knowledge management in the context of human resource development and organizational change. For some higher education institutions and practice-focused readers, additional knowledge is highly needed. This unique, engaging, and timely book explores methods closely related to an organization's successful learning and knowledge enhancement process. It encourages managers to think critically and provides a useful framework for identifying and releasing tacit knowledge. It proposes a unique three-dimensional framework consisting of strategic capabilities, knowledge output, and corporate training; emphasizes the importance of decisive dialogue, historical learning, interpretation, and metaphor; explores and discusses the implications of the knowledge economy in today's companies; and offers mainstream perspectives on providing useful knowledge for organizational culture. Each part includes contributions from internationally recognized scholars and practitioners in the fields of learning and knowledge management, as well as internationally renowned case studies. Dr. Bob Garvey is the head of the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management department at the Business and Finance School of Bill Williamson. He has worked as a management consultant in the private sector for nine years. Bill Williamson is a professor at the School of Continuing Education at Durham University. He has published extensively in the fields of education, lifelong learning, social history, and contemporary history, and has worked at universities in Germany and several countries in the Middle East.