A Framework for Sharing and Retaining
Organisations have in recent times realised that they base their competitiveadvantage on knowledge. Knowledge in the form of people’s expertise is seen as anorganisation’s greatest value creating asset. Tacit knowledge in the form ofemployees’ skill and their “know how” gives any organisation a competitiveadvantage. It is this cognitive knowledge that must be shared, retained andcommunicated within an organisation in order to create a sustainable competitiveadvantage by growing the tacit knowledge of the organisation as a whole. Thisvaluable tacit knowledge needs to be made explicit to individuals within theorganisation but obscure to those outside the organisation in order to hinder otherorganisations imitating or developing it to their own benefit.The main purpose of this study was to determine what methods of knowledge sharingcan be used to explicate and share knowledge in particular types of industry. Thestudy was done by means of a literature review and considered alternative methodsof knowledge sharing to propose a framework for sharing and retaining knowledgewithin organisations in particular types of industries.The current research highlights what style of learning an organisation can adopt to bemost effective in the industry in which they operate and suggests various methodsthat organisations can use for sharing and retaining knowledge within the knowledgeconversion cycle. The main finding of this research presents a theoretical foundationas a conceptual framework that combines different methods for sharing and retainingknowledge within the knowledge conversion cycle and the style of learning that anorganisation can adopt to be effective in that particular business environment. Thisframework should enable managers to identify difficulties of sharing tacit knowledgeand to identify effective methods of sharing and retaining tacit knowledge within theirorganisation
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2011-06-15
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Authors: | Solomon, Jacob |
Subject: | Knowledge management | Organisational knowledge |
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