Individual and Organisational Learning Issues Relevant to Knowledge Management in Organisations

Abstract

Within the last few years, the topfc of knowledge management has generated a lot of interest in the corporate sectors. Although there is no commonly agreed upon definition of knowledge or knowledge management, all kinds of organizations are implementing knowledge management The literature on knowledge management can broadly be categorized into three parts, one focusing in the strategic imperatives of knowledge management, the second focusing on the use of IT to support knowledge management initiatives, and the third on the behavioral issues around implementing and operating knowledge management This paper examines the third stream of literature to present the individual and organizational learning issues that have a bearing on the successful implementation of knowledge management.