Communities of Practice - Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Information Science and Knowledge Management, 13
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Noriko Hara
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	138
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-85423-4
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > General Books > Computing & IT > Internet > Network computers Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Social sciences > Education > Careers guidance > Industrial or vocational training
LSN:	3-540-85423-1
Barcode:	9783540854234

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