Beyond Knowledge Management: Dialogue, Creativity, and Corporate Training (Volume 4)

Author: Bob Garvey, Bill Williamson (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This unique, engaging, and timely book explores methods closely related to an organization's success in learning and knowledge enhancement. It encourages managers to think critically and provides a useful framework for clarifying 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 metaphors; 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 chapter includes contributions from leading academics 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 Resources Management department at the Bill Williamson School of Business and Finance. 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. He has also worked at universities in Germany and several countries in the Middle East.