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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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Author(s) |
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Rachel Barker,
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Abstract |
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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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