Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place (2009) (Information Science and Knowledge Management #13)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
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- 2009
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- 9783540854241
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- 9783540854234
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Date of Addition:
- 07/17/22
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- Language:
- English
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- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Sociology
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