Knowledge-cum-values Management belongs to the Way out from Global Crisis

Zdenka Ženko,Matjaž Mulej,Vojko Potočan

doi:10.1515/bsrj-2017-0009

Abstract

AbstractBackground: The contemporary world-wide socio-economic crisis tends to escalate and contribute to the global crisis. Limitation of education to one-sided ‘knowledge management’ rather than socially responsible ‘knowledge-cum-values-management’ is one of the crisis’s causes. Objectives: The limitations to current knowledge management should be analyzed with systemic thinking. Which values are prevailing in it now and which values will enable the survival of humankind? Methods/Approach: In the first part, literature is reviewed for analysis and conceptual generalization of knowledge management. The theoretical framework based on ‘system theory’, ‘knowledge management’ and ‘knowledge-cum-values management’, and ‘values of social responsibility’ is introduced. In the second part a new theoretical concept “A potential methodological support for human transition from one-sided to requisitely holistic behavior via social responsibility” is discussed. Results: Knowledge management is a too narrow concept, it tends to leave aside human values, an impact on the natural environment, and extremely growing differences. Humankind needs consideration of responsibility, interdependence and holism in order to minimize detrimental impact of individual behaviour on society, i.e. humans and nature. Conclusions: The research indicates that individuals should attain more requisite holism, and should not be irrational by trying to attain only rationalism in human decision-making and action.

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IntroductionThe most influential humans and organizations seem to choose the opposite: the arm race and related business generate huge profits, influencing large number of human losses and migrants
People in life usually have multiple, but positively oriented goals: (i) to have and/or to be reliable partners both in business and labor relations; (ii) to prevent no expected cost; (iii) to act for the long-term and less selfish goals; (iv) to preserve your own, your children’s and your grandchildren’s natural preconditions of life, and others.the most influential humans and organizations seem to choose the opposite: the arm race and related business generate huge profits, influencing large number of human losses and migrants
The most influential humans and organizations seem to choose the opposite: the arm race and related business generate huge profits, influencing large number of human losses and migrants. This means that some most influential actors do not take into account social responsibility, i.e.: holism, interdependence and responsibility, which the current humankind has chosen as the crucial preference by passing ISO 26000 (ISO, 2010) etc

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Introduction

The most influential humans and organizations seem to choose the opposite: the arm race and related business generate huge profits, influencing large number of human losses and migrants. This means that some most influential actors do not take into account social responsibility, i.e.: holism, interdependence and responsibility, which the current humankind has chosen as the crucial preference by passing ISO 26000 (ISO, 2010) etc. Bertalanffy’s warning, that he expressed as creator of Systems Theory (right after that period that he had experienced WWII) He believed that the fate of the world depends from the possibility of adoption by humanity of a new set of values, which are based on the general systems Weltanschauung (= worldview). Conclusions: The research indicates that individuals should attain more requisite holism, and should not be irrational by trying to attain only rationalism in human decision-making and action

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