Communities of Practice
Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place
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.
| Autor: | Hara, Noriko |
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| ISBN: | 9783642099106 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 138 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer Berlin |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.11.2010 |
| Untertitel: | Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place |
| Schlagworte: | Peer communities of practice cop informal learning knowledge sharing offline online social informatics |
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