Summary
Contents
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Culture and Organizational Behaviour is a modular textbook that highlights the effect of the confluence of western and Indian cultural influences. This book presents the basic knowledge of organizational behavior as developed in the west, adds the latest global research findings, and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective. The book also highlights new issues that emanate from the interface of Indian culture and organizational behavior.
Key Features: Simple and relatively jargon-free language, accompanied by an Instructor's Manual; Measures and questionnaires for illustrations, discussions, and further explorations of researchable ideas; and Attempts to create enough space for the students, faculty, researchers, and policy makers to address theoretical as well as practical issues.
Knowledge Organizations
Knowledge Organizations
This Chapter Aims to
- Highlight the importance of knowledge organization.
- Show the superiority of double-loop over single-loop learning.
- Delineate different forms of knowledge.
- Discuss the role of forms of knowledge and culture in knowledge transfer.
Importance of Knowledge Organizations
By all accounts, the world economy has transitioned from the industrial age to the information age where knowledge, based on the digital convergence of Internet, computer, and telecommunication, has replaced the traditionally crucial natural resources for enabling organizations to have competitive advantages (Drucker 1999; Senge 1990; Stewart 1997). Not that capital, technology, and other natural resources are irrelevant or profit and products are unimportant, but organizations are increasingly being driven primarily by knowledge. Even for realizing high productivity and profitability, organizations have to depend ...
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