Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
In its incipient stages, knowledge management would be promoted as an integrant party of information systems, which collect and process data. The processes would be complicated and based on strict statistical information. Yet, as time progressed, the understanding of knowledge management became clearer. Today, knowledge management as an information system within the organization is used for any of the following:
"Creation of knowledge databases - best practices, expert directories, market intelligence etc.
Effective information management - gathering, filtering, classifying, storing etc.
Incorporation of knowledge into business processes e.g. through the use of help screens in computer procedures or access to experts from icons
Development of knowledge centers - focal points for knowledge skills and facilitating knowledge flow
Reuse of knowledge at customer support centers e.g. via case-based reasoning
Introduction of collaborative technologies, especially Intranets or groupware, for rapid information access
Knowledge webs - networks of experts who collaborate across and beyond an organization's functional and geographic boundaries
Augmentation of decision support processes, such as through expert systems or group decision support systems" (Skyrme)
A fourth angle in looking at knowledge management in the globalizing context is given by the decision making process. The decision making process has evolved from its stage of natural evolution to its modern place of multiple choices and multiple scenarios, determined and influenced by countless variables. And this context has been created and promoted by a globalizing context in which economic agents are confronted with more opportunities, but also more challenges.
In this international setting, the intellectual capital is pivotal in making the best decision. An adequate system of knowledge management will ensure that the managers possess sufficient and relevant information regarding the...
In other words, knowledge management assumes the position of pivotal component of the decision making process. At a general level, this role is played through five consecutive and cyclic stages, as follows: (1) identification of knowledge; (2) creation of knowledge; (3) codification of knowledge; (4) storage of knowledge and (5) diffusion and use of knowledge (Harron).
A final perspective in assessing the processes of knowledge management is that of the impediments which are created. In the general understanding, globalization is understood as a promoter of knowledge management, but it should also be recognized that it does create some challenges as well. Globalization for instance creates a new work place, a more dynamic and more demanding working environment. The people, who possess the intellectual capital and who need to be managed, are culturally diverse and as such driven by different needs and features. Another challenge is given by the internationally expanding technologies or by the new managerial practices and concepts, which also expand globe wide (Buono and Poulfelt, 2005).
Wright therefore suggests that race and social class are intimately related. In Part One of the novel, Bigger expresses his primitive understanding of class struggle when he states, "Sure, it was all a game and white people knew how to play it," (37). People with economic and political power are the main obstacles to racial equality; characters like Buckley also show how class conflict is even more important than race.
(It will be recalled that Wright's then unpublished Lawd Today served as a working model for The Outsider.) Cross, in his daily dealings with the three women and his fellow postal workers feel something akin to nausea. His social and legal obligations have enslaved him. He has inherited from his mother a sense of guilt and foreboding regarding his relationship to women and his general awareness of amoral physical
Richard Wright's social themes (e.g., racism) in any one of his short stories. Specifically it will discuss "Black Boy," and "Native Son." RICHARD WRIGHT Richard Wright was born in Mississippi in 1908 and died in 1960. During his rather brief lifetime, he completed several novels, and books of poems, all dealing with black issues and ideas. Two of his most famous works are "Black Boy," and "Native Son," which this paper
Richard Wright's Native Son, that character of Bigger is at times both a victim and a sacrificial figure. The horrible events of his life are shaped by the hopelessness and racism of his environment. As such, Wright manages to create a form of compassion for Bigger, a man whose life was largely predetermined by his environment. Eventually, Bigger realizes that a violent attack against white society was the only
Richard Wright's novel 'Black Boy', which was published in 1945. Black boy focuses on the life of the author in South where he witnessed devastating racial segregation and discrimination and realized that virtual slavery was still prevalent even after the Civil war. The paper also examines author's position in the novel and finds out to what extent he had been successful in creating awareness regarding the issue of racism. BLACK
The Oxsoralen he took to change the color of his skin may have hastened his death. Why did he do it? "If I could take on the skin of a black man, live whatever might happen and then share that experience with others, perhaps at the level of shared human experience, we might come to some understanding that was not possible at the level of pure reason" (Power 2006). Through all