All entries for Friday 23 April 2010
April 23, 2010
Share knowledge– who is going takes advantages
Everyone understands the benefit of sharing knowledge, but the question is: does every one easy to share knowledge with each other? I do not think so, some ideas may be shared if you don't know the information may hurt others profits or they have same/parts of responsibilities. But what If some knowledge keep a person has strong competitive force in a particular area? Will he share, or not?
In an organization, sometimes the workmates or same level managers may competitor or protensail competitors. Someone has skills can solve more problems in his job he may keep advantages and secure his job. Sometimes he may gain more profits from it. If he shares the experiences and knowledge with others then he may same with others. If he still wants to keep advantages he needs to learn more for that. That means doing more works and keep them for not to share. So how to create an environment for people to share knowledge without these considerations is a real problem?
If share knowledge he will get bonuses, then how to measure?
If everyone does the same thing and get same salary then who dose the extra work?
One example to implement KM
There is an example to implement the KM into an organization. A leader trained their stuffs in an training center, at beginning the stuffs are very happy to be trained. But after one month, the training center informed the leader that his stuffs do not like to come, for only few people come this week. When the leader asked the stuffs why they don't like to learn the new things, The stuff said: they have go there 4 days a week after job, when they come from training center they have to cook and serve the family which is so tried. But the leader still wants them to learn. Therefore if they don't go there, the staffs will have penalty such as some money from salary. The result is that the stuffs want to leave the company after three mouths.
Going to a consultant company, the ideas they gave is stop training and give bonus. But the bonuses only give to people who passed the tests, the contents of the tests is about training. And training only set up once a month. After 3 months, the stuffs demands for more lessons to learn. And the profits of the company increased.
That is a good example to think how to implements KM or other strategy in the organization. Same times need more "reasonable and just"
Leadership influences implementation knowledge management
Leadership in my opinion is just like a car: it can drive you fast but also can drive you to a wrong direction. A leader's influence may be huge. Like the sentence of "The science and technology is the primary productive force."----Xiao ping. Deng: same as any other famous person, some words people can remember from them. Some ideas and knowledge can easily share. But if the leader wants to prohibit to share the knowledge or even influence people to do worth things (when them doing it, they may think that is right), it still works, like "Hitler".
In an organization or company, only "influences" may not enough, strategy and policy have to set up for it. But the importance is that the leader of an organization has to know whether the knowledge management can bring benefit.
Knowledge is wealth.
I remember I learned Marxist philosophy in my university before coming UK. About what is "productivities" that include 3 main parts: human labor/workers, means of labor/tools, subject of labor/Waverider
Workers have right to produce and use the tools, choose and exploit the subject of labor. The human labor/workers are the key factor of productivities. There have two elements in human labor/ workers, one is body power and other one is brains. In nowadays, the machines are instead of simple tools, therefore the power of human labor mainly come from the brains and knowledge.
As we all know that, "The science and technology is the primary productive force."----Xiao ping. Deng