Knowledge Management and Organization Behaviour - 8403 Words

Aravali Institute of Management Knowledge Management Term Paper Topic: Knowledge Management and Organization Behaviour (Tracing the interrelationship) Submitted To Mr. Prithwi T. Banerjee Faculty, AIM Submitted by Group No. 4 Harshad Vyas Om Prakash Suthar Bhawani SinghRathore Amit Mathur Gourav Rathi Abstract Organizations are collections of interacting and inter related human and non-human resources working toward a common goal or set of goals within the framework of structured relationships. Organizational behaviour is concerned with all aspects of how organizations influence the behaviour of individuals and how individuals in turn influence organizations. Organizational behaviour is an inter-disciplinary field that draws freely†¦show more content†¦Especially the focus on actor characteristics and as a result the actor/agent taxonomy being combined in a multi-actor system with various coordination mechanisms, makes it a better framework for an easy and smooth inclusion of and integration with (software) agents. More Details†¦ In many situations, the term â€Å"organizational knowledge† is very useful as a short description of what organizations know. â€Å"Organizational knowledge† is also the basis for â€Å"organizational learning† (OL). One can only learn if one knows already something. In this article, we argue that this organizational perspective can only be studied fruitfully if two basic requirements are fulfilled: (1) a determination of what knowledge is and is about and which carriers of knowledge should be taken into account and (2) a determination of the mechanisms that provide the interaction between actors and possibly software agents. We first state that the term â€Å"organizational knowledge† is a metaphor, a way of speaking. Organizations literally do not have knowledge. Human individuals, or to be more precise, the brains/minds of humans have knowledge. With this knowledge, humans work with each other and with other kinds of actors (software agents), such as (advanced) information systems. 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