2nd Special Focus Symposium on ICESKS: Information‚ Communication and Economic Sciences in the Knowledge Society Zadar‚ November 13th to 14th‚ 2008 HRM practices in managing knowledge workers Ing. Martin Šikýř‚ Department of Personnel Management‚ Faculty of Business Administration‚ University of Economics‚ Prague‚ Winston Churchill Sg. 4‚ 130 67 Prague 3‚ Czech Republic‚sikyrm@vse.cz Prof.dr.sc. Damir Boras‚ Faculty of Philosophy‚ University of Zagreb‚ Croatia Ljubica Bakić-Tomić‚ Ph.D
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Staff Turnover as a Possible Threat to Knowledge Loss Urbancová Hana‚ Linhartová Lucie Abstract The article focuses on labour turnover as a potential threat to knowledge loss. Labour turnover results in an organizations inability to ensure knowledge continuity. In this study‚ induction was used to identify factors within organizations that determine employees’ exit from organizations. The verifiability of these factors was tested by means of correlation and regression. Subsequently‚ the presented
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Organizational Knowledge creation Knowledge creation is a dynamic capability that enables firms to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. The most important models elaborated for organizational knowledge creation are: Nonaka’s model‚ Nissen’s model‚ Boisot’s model and the EO_SECI model. The two predominant goals of organization are the generation and the application of knowledge‚ because the capacity to generate and apply organizational knowledge is the source of competitive
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Uncertain Impact of Technology on Knowledge Workers and Managers Frank Bannister and Dan Remenyi Trinity College‚ Dublin Frank.Bannister@tcd.ie Dan.Remenyi@tcd.ie Abstract: While the productivity paradox has now been officially pronounced dead‚ the argument and the evidence for this assertion are both at a macroeconomic level. What has been less closely examined is the microeconomic impact of recent developments in ICT on the productivity of office and knowledge workers. There is an assumption
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Ch. 11 Managing Knowledge and Collaboration 1 Learning Objectives • Assess the role of knowledge management and knowledge management programs in business • Describe the types of systems used for enterprise-wide knowledge management and demonstrate how they provide value for organizations • Describe the major types of knowledge work systems and assess how they provide value for firms • Evaluate the business benefits of using intelligent techniques for knowledge management 2 P&G Moves
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principles of information. Information processing on how learners organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know. Assumed conceptual knowledge cause and validation. Native Hawaiian students do not know the consequences of course attendance or of missing class. As with factual knowledge‚ Anderson and Krathwohl’s (2001) learning taxonomy on conceptual knowledge involves understanding systems of classification and categories‚ principles and generalizations‚ and theories and
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DQ 4 about Knowledge Workers and their working field and circumstances The term knowledge worker was first used by Peter Drucker in his book Landmarks of Tomorrow from 1959. His opinion is right that knowledge workers have positions in the technology field‚ researching‚ system analysts‚ technical writers‚ academical professionals and so forth. The concrete definition of a knowledge worker is described in Thomas Davenports Book Thinking for a living (2005) as someone who uses his mind for work
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“The knowers perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” to what extent do you agree to this statement? “What you see depends not only on what you look at‚ but also‚ on where you look from.” (James Deacon‚ 2016) This quote by James Deacon‚ addresses the question regarding the value of knowledge. It can also shed light on the question above‚ and raises two important knowledge claims. Firstly‚ that knowledge is primarily based on personal perspective. Secondly‚ another claim is raised
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To what extent does the acquirement of knowledge involve certainty? Since the dawn of time‚ a fervour for acquiring certain truths about the nature of our existence has created a procession of assimilating theories and estimations over what was and what could be. However‚ a discrepancy within the knowledge passed on has generated a tendency to precede the matters of our research i.e the absolution of study that we crave is sometimes superseded by falsities passed on from our waning pasts. Whether
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Management and Leadership skills‚ when holding parents evening in an early years setting Introduction For the purpose of this work I will focus my attention on management and leadership skills‚ that any good early years practitioner should possess in order to organise/hold the event of parents evening. Working in partnership with parents Constructive working relationships between teachers and parents can enhance adults knowledge and understanding of children and children’s learning opportunities
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