The current studies on knowledge management are going two ways. One is the knowledge creation process-centric approach. which is studied by professor Nonaka as a main researcher. and the other is the knowledge share system-centric approach. which is r...
The current studies on knowledge management are going two ways. One is the knowledge creation process-centric approach. which is studied by professor Nonaka as a main researcher. and the other is the knowledge share system-centric approach. which is relatively preferred by the companies of Western countries including US. The latter focuses on foundation of information infra and system for procurement. management and share of knowledge.
Recently. CEOs of many companies have been interested in the performance of the knowledge management system. and accordingly many studied have been performed on the performance.
This study examined the effect of the system on the performance of the organization on the basis of the above-mentioned two approaches. and tried to present the effective ways for introduction. execution and application of the knowledge management.
This study, also, examined the existing theoretical and positive researches on the knowledge management. The methods of the examinations are by considering literature and precedent studies, and by analyzing the effect of the assets of the knowledge management on the knowledge sharing activities and the performance of the organization after the establishment of the knowledge management system. The results of the analyses are as follows:
First, the knowledge sharing system seems to be well established when there are a lot of supports and positive activities of CEO, and high degree of cooperation in the members of the organization. The high degree of cooperation may also result in the high degree of knowledge sharing activities.
Second, the knowledge sharing system seems to be well established in horizontal organizations, strict organizational culture and renovation leading management strategy. We can say that the more horizontal the organization are, the more positive the knowledge sharing activities take place
Third, the knowledge sharing system seems to be well established when there is a high degree of consciousness of crisis from the outer environment, or a high level of information technology. The high information technology may also cause the high degree of knowledge sharing activities.
Fourth, when the system is well established and the knowledge sharing activities are activated, there seems to be a high degree of organizational performance.
This study is useful in finding the effect of knowledge management assets of companies in Korea on the knowledge sharing and the organizational performance by verifying the relationship of the assets, the sharing, and the performance.
In addition, this study has its significance in examining the existing theoretical studies and positive researches on the concepts of the knowledge management or the ways to manage the knowledge and the assets and the sharing; in readjusting the existing studies on the relationship of the assets, the sharing, and the performance; and in verifying them through positive analyses.
In practice, this study presents a successful model for introduction of the knowledge management on the basis of the above-mentioned results of analyses. That is, by examining the influential relation between the factors for the successful management, this study can be said to base positive studies for successful models of the knowledge management.
Like other field study through questionnaires, however, this study has some limits, such as the validity of the sample selected, the validity of parameter measurement, the prejudices of respondents due to the insincerity of them, and so on.
Therefore, I think that it should be desirable to select the objects of research taking the scale of the company into account, or to provide one copy of the questionnaire for each company in the future studies, and that the studies should be performed through the appropriate selection of the samples, the use of financial data for measuring the performance parameters, and the dividing the samples into the stages of introduction of the knowledge management.