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The Role of Knowledge Leaders in Creating a Knowledge-Based Organizational Culture Conducive to Knowledge Sharing: A Theoretical Framework |
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PP: 1-11 |
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Rachel Barker,
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| Globalized technological and cultural advances changed organizational environments significantly. In order to stay competitive, organizations need to acknowledge the value of their knowledge assets and the necessity to become knowledge organizations to transform and adapt to these changes through knowledge management. Although there are many studies on knowledge sharing, few have examined the role of knowledge leaders and the combined effect they have on the culture of the organization. The commonality of most recent research indicates an emphasised focus on the knowledge management of information creation and sharing to create a knowledge-based organizational culture conducive to knowledge sharing. This emphasizes the role of and need for knowledge leaders for positive intervention to enhance knowledge sharing for problem solving and innovation through efforts to develop a culture of trust and commitment. Where knowledge management focuses on two main theoretical perspectives, namely human capital and knowledge-based theory, the leadership theories emphasise that leaders should acknowledge the premises of the strategic intent of the organization through the management of information, creative media strategies and environmental scanning based on trust, loyalty, integrity and credibility. Hence, it is argued that the role of knowledge leaders in knowledge management is a combination of continuous enquiry on the systems and processes of an organization and how the functioning of the organization can be improved through proactively and interactively managing the intellectual capital (individual and collective knowledge) under its leadership. The need for further research on these concepts provided impetus for the research problem that there is a lack of existing studies investigating the role of knowledge leaders in creating a knowledge-based organizational culture. |
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