Reference no: EM133364925

Questions

1. The academic experts say that, 'a firm's competitive advantage depends more than anything on its knowledge: on what it knows - how it uses what it knows - and how fast it can know something new.' What is your opinion as manager at practice with regards to your company?

2. Explicit knowledge can exist in codifiable forms including documents, diagrams, computer systems, it may also be embedded in physical artifacts such as machinery or tools. Whereas tacit knowledge is regarded as more informal, less rigorous and highly subjective, being embedded within the cultural values and assumptions of those who possess and use it. In your opinion which types of knowledge is existing in your company more and why?

3. Academic experts say that producing a good or a service typically requires the application of many types of knowledge - tacit as well as explicit. In your company which type of knowledge is applied more to produce good or service and how it is used?

4. The objectivist perspective' conceptualizes knowledge as being primarily derived from cognitive processes, something involving the brain and not the body, whereas 'the practice-based perspective' instead views knowing and the development of knowledge as occurring on an ongoing basis through the routine activities that people undertake. In your company which one is existing and how?

5. Organizational scholars suggest that all knowledge management initiatives require to be seen as highly political, and are likely to be accompanied by what they describe as 'turf wars' by different organizational interest groups attempting to gain some control over these projects. Do you think it happens in your company also?

6. Knowledge management refers to any deliberate efforts to manage the knowledge of an organization's workforce, which can be achieved via a wide range of either direct or indirect methods. Direct methods involve the use of particular types of ICT, or indirectly through the management of social processes, that is the use of particular culture and people management practices. Which one is the case in your company and why?

7. Social capital relates to the networks of personal relationships that people possess and are embedded within, and the resources people can draw on and utilize through such networks for their companies or organizations. Do you think such capital exist in your company and how your company is getting benefit through this capital?

8. With regards to organization learning, single loop learning leads to incremental changes within a coherent framework of theory, double loop learning results in learning where existing theories/ assumptions are questioned and reflected on, whereas triple loop learning is the highest level of learning which involves the process of learning and reflection itself being questioned. In your company which one is the case and how?