商品簡介
Today Learning Organizations are shaped by collective knowledge and the existence of teams and groups of people that are continuously developing their capacity and ability to create results. Knowledge-based organizations understand the importance of continually learning at all levels and facilitates learning for its members through empowering people, encouraging collaboration, and promoting open dialogue. Organizational management issues have become strategic and fundamental in the collection and sharing of data and information and recognized as challenging to both public and private organizations around the world. This has created the need to knowledge governance mechanisms to support Knowledge Management practices in organizations. For this governance, the mechanisms and procedures that encompass Knowledge Management, advancing on the traditional Corporate Governance (GovCorp) model, have been consolidated into a new governance model described as Knowledge Governance (GovC). Such model considers the processes of the knowledge related to the use, creation, retention, integration and sharing. In order to implement governance, it is essential to develop competencies and establish corporate policies and structures focusing on respect for common interests and collective goals. In this context, mechanisms must be created for the creation, sharing, storage and transfer of knowledge, making changes happen in synergy and adding value to the organization as a whole. Traditionally, Corporate Governance models are focused on monitoring and control of outcomes and it does not take into account the application of Knowledge Governance mechanisms for the purpose of promoting organizational learning as well as supporting the effectiveness of the Organizational Knowledge Cycle.The book will cover the newly emerging area of knowledge governance and Learning Organizations and expand our understanding of Learning organizations and their ability to acquire, create and share knowledge while continually examining organizational behavioral issues affecting their productivity.
