Competencies Of Km Leader Essay

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8. Competencies of KM leader
What is so important to be a Knowledge leader? The information management consultant, TFPL (Skyrme and Amidon 1997:435) researched four competencies listed as below;
1. Skills ( Technical skills, communication skills, skills transfer)
2. Experience ( Management experience, Business strategy)
3. Attributes ( Team approach, values ethos, leadership)
4. Behavior (Self-confidence, risk taking abilities, responsibilities, problem solving) Moreover, we can’t forgot others competency like innovation and creativity, continues learning, personality, self-confident, drive and motivation, knowledge of the business, cognitive and practical intelligence, emotional intelligence.

Innovation and creativity,
The spirit behind innovation of knowledge leader to exploit …show more content…

Organizational Culture & KM leadership

There are two research questions that are endeavored to explore, which are:
1. Does organizational culture influence knowledge sharing?
2. Does transformational leadership promote knowledge sharing activity? Ref #9

There are different organizational cultural factors that differ across organizations and they impact knowledge sharing (Bures, 2003). More prominent factors which identified are trust, collaboration, empowerment, politics, power and autonomy. The organizations ability to cultivate and reinforce them will positively force employees to share with others (Delong and Fahey, 2000). Nonaka and Takeutschi (1995) believed that an autonomous individual endeavors for personal development thus increasing the probability of personal growth, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.

Schein (2004) examined organizational culture is tacit and unarticulated rule for new joiners in an organization in order to stay along with other member. No doubt that KM leadership in organization statistically effect on KM implementation process. However, there is major effect we can’t overlook to the impact of organization

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