Knowledge Inertia Literature Review

INL 320 Assignment No: 1

Annotated bibliography

 Aküzüm, C. 2014. Knowledge Inertia and Organizational Learning as the Explanation of Organizational Performance. Educational Research and Reviews. 9(21): 1143-1155.

The author Dr Aküzüm Cemal is head of the research department in the Dicle University, faculty of education in Turkey. This journal highlights the importance of organisations that properly manages their knowledge and the benefits that come with it. The author uses the term “knowledge inertia” explaining how human beings solve problems that they encounter in their daily basis both in the work places and in the personal level. He state that the knowledge does emerge as results of interaction within the organisation and

This is a chapter from the book titled Knowledge management in both theory and practice. Communication is seen as the fundamental that enable the organisation to create and support the knowledge that it has, where there is people interacting there is communication. This source strives to create a knowledge friendly environment in the work places by implementing strategies that promote the knowledge sharing among the colleagues. This book covers the benefits of knowledge management in the organisation and on the personal level. I will use this book in my assignment to highlight the ways in which individuals in the organisations can learn and see the importance of management of their knowledge to achieve the organisational goals and their goals as

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Subject/verb agreement (concord) – have you correctly used plural and singular forms of verbs? Yes

Have you correctly used punctuation? (ie. commas, semi-colons, apostrophes) Yes

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Formatting

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Have you used 1.5 paragraph spacing throughout? Yes

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Content

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Have you included an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention? No

Have you included a conclusion that summarises the main ideas of the essay? (NB: no new information may be introduced) No

References

Have you made use of references in the text (with a proper citation marker indicating the author surname, year and page) as soon as you made a claim or statement? Yes

Are all direct quotations in inverted commas? Yes

Did you use the Harvard style to compile your list of references? Yes

Is the reference list consistent?