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The IUP Journal of Knowledge Management :
Knowledge Management System and Learning Organization: An Empirical Study in an Engineering Organization
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of Knowledge Management System (KMS) on learning organization. This paper also attempts to investigate the relationship between demographic profile and KMS and the relationship between demographic profile and learning organizations. A private engineering concern in a district has been chosen for conducting this study and a sample of 65 managers and engineers were chosen from the population of 180 managers and engineers together. A survey-based instrument is used to gather the responses from managers and engineers. Some variations were observed on KMS due to the factors such as innovation, different market entry and market share. Some variations were observed on the properties of learning organization due to factors such as knowledge application, KM process and shared vision. The study is limited to one particular organization. The results may not be applicable to other business organizations. KMS is an IT based system developed for managing knowledge in organizations which supports the creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information. Nowadays, many organizations especially knowledge-based organizations have started realizing the importance and benefits of KMS and also the contribution of KMS in learning organizations is well understood by the organizations.

 
 
 

Knowledge Management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices that deal with how knowledge is acquired, transferred, and shared with all the members of the organization. Such strategies and practices seek to achieve the organization's objectives.

Knowledge Management System (KMS) refers to a comprehensive information and communication technology platform used for managing knowledge in organizations for supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information.

Sense (2008) examined how people can conceive learning and KM processes within project teams and provided conceptual guidance on the most effective way to managerially approach these important and often neglected project issues. The conceptual paper by Andrew draws on and dissects a very broad and relevant literature on learning and KM. In this paper, he puts forward a conceptually grounded argument for a greater practical emphasis to be placed on the social systems in learning and KM processes in projects. Here, he also provided a foundation for project practitioners to critically reflect on their current learning and KM attitudes and practices, and also encouraged their attention towards the management of their social system projects (Merx-Chermin and Nijhof, 2005). Through this study, we can gain a better understanding of the factors that influence the innovative power of organizations. They examined the concept of innovation and innovative power by analyzing the relationship between the construct of the learning organization, knowledge organization and innovative organization. The innovative process model drawn out by Mireille consists of three processes—knowledge creation, innovation and learning to learn. He conducted an exploratory study on Oce Technologies, The Netherlands.

 
 
 

Knowledge Management Journal, Knowledge Management System, Engineering Organization, Learning Organizations, Information and Communication Technology, Social System Projects, Customer Relationship Management System, Social Knowledge Applications, Organizational Learning Research, Crisis Management, Information Systems, IS Security Management, Human Resource Management, Employee Development, Business Processes.