...KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT BBA111 – Report (2012) Leon Chen “Knowledge is experience. Everything else is just information” – Albert Einstein To remain competitive in the 21st century, organizations must efficiently and effectively create, locate, capture, and share their organization’s knowledge and expertise. Organizations must then utilize this knowledge in a manner that adds value to the company and its stakeholders. This process of acquiring, sharing and using knowledge is referred to as knowledge management. Contents Introduction 2 Knowledge acquisition 3 Tacit and Explicit Knowledge 3 Knowledge Acquisition Strategies 3 Knowledge Sharing 4 Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) 4 Communities of Practice 5 Individual knowledge Sharing 6 Utilization of Knowledge 6 Conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction Knowledge Management (KM) is the process and ability of acquiring, sharing and utilising knowledge that will benefit the organization. With new knowledge, organizations can grow and learn. Knowledge is constantly being developed by individual minds and it is the organization that plays a critical role in articulating and amplifying that knowledge . (Wiig, 1997) stated that the purpose of KM, from an organizational perspective, is to aid in utilizing internal and external knowledge resources in order to achieve stated goals and sustain competitive advantage. Although KM is now becoming widely accepted and utilized, with increased...
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...IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Business Management (IMPACT: IJRBM) ISSN(E): 2321-886X; ISSN(P): 2347-4572 Vol. 2, Issue 9, Sep 2014, 107-122 © Impact Journals THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT ON EMPLOYEES PRODUCTIVITY: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA BREWERY, PLC IGBAEKEMEN GODDY OSA1 & IDOWU OLUWAFEMI AMOS2 1,2 Department of Sociology, Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, Nigeria ABSTRACT The need for this study arose from the acknowledgement of organizational commitment on employee productivity as the most critical in all organizational analyses, and the determinant often found between goals of the organizational all the needs of employee within it, therefore, necessary to empirically study how the impact of organizational commitment on employee are coping with the challenges of employee productivity. The presence of organizational commitment to employees can be used to gain employees support for organization and in turn maximize the benefits it receive from their employee with greater productivity and individual performance seems to increase in the same proportions. Organizational commitment and employee productivity issue are emerging as the most critical work force management challenges of the past, present and immediate future driven by, employee loyalty. Frontline manager, supervisions, a project leader, team captain or human resource manager actually has more power in an organization to reduce poor productivity, because the factors...
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...A SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MPANGA GROWERS TEA FACTORY LIMITED BY …………………………. U/2010/BIT/0…/D RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT ON THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF THE UGANDA PENTECOSTAL UNIVERSITY DECLARATION I hereby declare that this project is my original work and it has not been submitted in this form or any other form to this or any other institution for examination purposes. Any quotation made has been referenced accordingly. Author Signature ………………………………… Date………. /…........./………. KASWARA TOM APPROVAL This project has been submitted for examination with my approval as the University candidate supervisor Signature ……………………………………… Date………/…..…../………. MR. ANDY BYONA DEDICATION I wish to dedicate this project to my family members who have shown great concern towards the fulfillment of this project. Finally to Uganda Pentecostal university and everybody who would like to undertake the same course in future. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank the almighty God for sustaining my life and seeing me through this course at the University. I am grateful for the concern by the people I have interacted with towards the successful completion of this project I extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Mr. Andy Byona for his high level of devotion , patience, monitoring , guidance and critical comments without which this work couldn’t...
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...‘BANK OF BHUTAN LIMITED, AN INTERNAL SCANNING STRATEGY’ CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Introduction Bank of Bhutan Limited was incorporated by Royal Charter, 1986 and is now incorporated under the Companies Act of Kingdom of Bhutan 2000 and Financial Institution Act of Kingdom of Bhutan, 1992. The Bank was established as the public sector commercial bank until the establishment of the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan. Until then they served the function of central bank in the Bhutan. The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan is the Central Bank of Bhutan, which was established in 1982 and is responsible for the regulating the financial sector and formulating the monetary policies in Bhutan. Bank of Bhutan started with only 20 account holders and currently has about 150,000 accounts. The bank was established with a paid-up capital of Nu 2.5 million. Though the bank was established in May 1968, due to non-convertibility of the local currency the desired pace of growth could not be achieved. Consequently, in 1971, a team of banking experts from India and the representatives from Royal Government of Bhutan recommended for collaboration with the State Bank of India (SBI). SBI was identified as partner in management and share holding. Accordingly, Bank of Bhutan was reconstituted under the Royal Charter of bank of Bhutan (1972) inducting State bank of India as partner in capital (in the ratio of 60:40) and the management of Bank of Bhutan. The SBI share in Bank of Bhutan was reduced...
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