Personal Knowledge Management: Individual, Organizational and Social Perspectives

Individuals need to survive and prosper in complex, changing and sometimes turbulent organizational environments. Organizations need individuals, who are increasingly 'knowledge workers' to have access to knowledge, skills and abilities that enable them and their teams to be effective in these kinds of work environments. Personal knowledge management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of individual growth and learning as much as on the technology and management processes traditionally associated with organizational knowledge management. This book looks at the emergence of personal knowledge management from a multi-disciplinary perspective and its contributors reflect the diverse fields of study that touch upon it. Relatively little research or major conceptual development has so far been focussed on personal knowledge management, but already significant questions are being asked, such as 'Is there an inherent conflict between personal and organisational knowledge management and how best do we harmonize individual and organizational goals?' This book, delving both deeply and broadly into its subject, will help all those concerned with 'knowledge work' and 'knowledge workers' to better understand the concepts involved and to benefit from relevant research in this important area.