Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place

di Noriko Hara (Autore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2008

1.1 Introduction Each year corporations spend millions of dollars training and educating their - ployees. On average, these corporations spend approximately one thousand dollars 1 per employee each year. As businesses struggle to stay on the cutting-edge and to keep their employees educated and up-to-speed with professional trends as well as ever-changing information needs, it is easy to see why corporations are investing more time and money than ever in their efforts to support their employees’ prof- sional development. During the Industrial Age, companies strove to control natural resources. The more resources they controlled, the greater their competitive edge in the mark- place. Senge (1993) refers to this kind of organization as resource-based. In the Information Age, companies must create, disseminate, and effectively use kno- edge within their organization in order to maintain their market share. Senge - scribes this kind of organization as knowledge-based. Given that knowledge-based organizations willcontinuetobeadrivingforcebehindtheeconomy, itisimperative that corporations support the knowledge and information needs of their workers.

• Autore: Noriko Hara
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Collana: Information Science and Knowledge Management
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 138 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783540854234

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