| Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-To-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place Contributor(s): Hara, Noriko (Author) |
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ISBN: 3642099106 ISBN-13: 9783642099106 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Social Aspects - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.49 lbs) 138 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |