Communities of Practice - Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

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:	November 2010
First published:	2009
Authors:	Noriko Hara
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	136
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-09910-6
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 Promotions
LSN:	3-642-09910-6
Barcode:	9783642099106

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