Posts Tagged ‘research results’
weknowmore.org conducted a big cross-cultural research on the human factor of knowledge management in international development organizations. This research was published yesterday in the Knowledge Management for Development Journal. Although the outcomes might seem intuitive, they are now for the first time in this context backed with some initial scientific evidence. We really see this [...]
We pick up the results of the research again in this post about the general outcomes of the study towards human behavior in knowledge processes. First we introduce how we came to the specific questions we used in our research by introducing the Knowledge Management Framework. Then the general results of the study follow; separated [...]
In this post we are publishing the results we found researching the influence that the size of an organization has on the reported knowledge sharing and seeking behavior of their staff.
Introduction
“Generally, any new management philosophy and technology are first implemented in large organizations and KM is no exception in this regard. Much of the [...]
In our second “theory of the week” we’ll take a look at the effect of setting concrete goals in knowledge management strategies.
The Goal Setting Theory of Locke and Henne is a valuable method to increase motivation of staff. The basic idea of this theory is that one’s behavior is being enhanced by setting goals.
This influence [...]
Introduction
“Baby boomers,” “Gen Xers,” the “me generation,” “Generation C” -our societies are fond of labeling different age groups as if to suggest that each group is quite different from the others.
It is interesting to see the differences among age groups with regard to knowledge management.
When it comes to technology adoption decisions, age, in fact, [...]
In this final part of this study’s demographics, we present the different places the participants hold within the structure of their organizations. To do this we use the Mintzberg Matrix, and Mintzberg’s Mushroom visualization technique.
The organizational structure is one of the most important components of an organization’s design and could be described in terms of [...]
In this second part of the demographics of our research you can find: the sectors in which the participants are active, the size and type of organization they work for, and their job titles.
Size of the Organizations
As you can see in the figure below, there is a nice distribution of organizational sizes. This will allow [...]
The first batch of our collected research data will be analyzed this weekend and next week. An amazing number of 392 people from all across our beautiful planet have completed the questionnaire at this moment.
[IMPORTANT: This post will be updated since at this moment 479 people completed the questionnaire, and the analysis was based [...]
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