scholarly journals Knowledge sharing and organizational change: Practice interactions in Australian local government

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Leith ◽  
Hilary Yerbury
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Subject Knowledge

The sharing of knowledge in organizations is deemed critical to achieving environmental and economic sustainability outcomes. This study applies a practice theoretical approach to investigating knowledge sharing in a team in local government created to break down the boundaries which have led to siloed practices. Findings indicate a range of activities, including influencing and resisting, and these differ from findings in other studies. Analysis of organizational discourses, physical arrangements and social spaces of organizations demonstrated the existence of two distinct practices: knowledge sharing and organizational change. Sharing knowledge of the organization and its ways of working were found to be as important as sharing subject knowledge and expertise.

Using social networking applications to facilitate change implementation processes: insights from organizational change stakeholders

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1979-1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Change Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Insurance Sector

PurposeThe failure rate of change is high amongst countries and cultures where collectivism, destructive politics and resistance are high. Therefore, change leaders are more focused on exploring how they can create networking and socialization amongst major organizational stakeholders that can minimize detrimental cynicism and lobbying during change implementation. This study is an attempt to shed light on how Social Networking Applications (henceforth SNAs) can facilitate change implementation processes in the insurance sector.Design/methodology/approachThe individual reaction and interaction realities during the change process cannot be discovered once and for all as there are varied perspectives on the same subjects. Therefore, a social constructionist position was used to understand the different realties of change managers and change recipients using the context of insurance sector.FindingsThe study documented how SNAs can play an active role in addressing the concerns of employees as well as managing and protecting knowledge sharing to facilitate the change implementation process. The collaborative and interactive nature of SNAs can enhance richness in knowledge sharing and can facilitate the participation of employees. Therefore, management should monitor these platforms as a means to improve the change process and to address the concerns of employees. These networking channels which include WhatsApp and Facebook can enhance social interactions, support and acceptance at individual and organizational levels.Research limitations/implicationsSocial media has become a familiar tool for employees to use to discuss internal changes and policies within their organizations. Social media enhances the richness, reach, knowledge exchange and effective internal communication potential amongst organizational change stakeholders. Using social media, change recipients are now more empowered and connected with their leadership that ever before. It is now easier to facilitate decision making during the change formulation and implementation process.Practical implicationsSocial media applications have become necessary to ensure incremental and radical changes to the survival of dynamic businesses. The findings of this study are beneficial for change leaders and recipients of change to implement successful organizational change using social media tools. The effective and efficient use of social media applications helps organizations to foster knowledge amongst employees and they can address various critical issues, that is resistance to change, lower levels of knowledge sharing and support for change acceptance and lack of employee participation in decision making.Originality/valueThere is an inadequate understanding regarding how SNAs play a role in facilitating the change process in both public and private sector organizations. This study offers a social mchange facilitation model with the help of social learning, social networking and social behaviourism theories.

scholarly journals eThekwini Municipality’s intranet for augmenting knowledge–sharing in the organisation

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo R. Averweg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Organisational Context ◽  
Metropolitan Municipalities

Background: The age of technology, where information and knowledge perform important roles in the organisational context, creates an opportunity for local government organisations (such as metropolitan municipalities) in South Africa to support knowledge–sharing. One such technology that supports knowledge–sharing is an intranet. If an intranet is not effectively managed, knowledge–sharing in an organisation shall not be augmented.Objective: To investigate whether or not an intranet augments knowledge–sharing in the selected organisation of eThekwini Municipality.Methods: In this study a quantitative research approach was adopted.Results: The results of this survey suggest that firstly the intranet appears to be at a medium maturity level; secondly, whilst there is information sharing, the intranet does not appear to be effective as a knowledge–sharing structure; and thirdly there appears to be scope for improvement of the content on the intranet. The implication thereof is that eThekwini Municipality’s recently formed Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE) may be ideally poised to address the identified shortcomings.Conclusion: Intranet technology plays an important role in an organisation by enabling the effective acquisition, sharing and presentation of knowledge. Because of this an intranet must be effectively managed to readily augment knowledge–sharing in the organisational context of local government organisations (such as metropolitan municipalities) in South Africa.

scholarly journals DRINKING SONGS AMONG THE ANNANG PEOPLE OF AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Friday Akpan Okon ◽  
Monday Johnny Shedrack
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Adult Males

This paper sets out to examine drinking songs among the Annang people of Akwa Ibom State, in order to show their meaning, general aesthetics and the conditions that necessitated the composition of some of the songs. In order to carry out this objective, the researcher with the help of an assistant, went to some villages in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area and recorded several drinking songs. The analysis of eleven of these songs using Ethnopoetics as the theoretical approach, is what forms the fulcrum of this paper. The result of the findings of this paper are generalized to cover the entire Annang nation, since the culture is homogeneous. Justification for the use of ten drinking songs is that each of the songs portrays a different and unique situation that cannot be substituted for any other. The findings of this paper are that firstly, Annang drinking songs lift the mood of heaviness of the drinkers and makes them jovial. Secondly, the songs create humour, are educative, and are not only interesting and full of aesthetics, but that they are drawn from the people’s ancient oral heritage. Equally, the research shows that the Annang adult males captured in these songs are responsible men, who would not hesitate to caution an irresponsible young drinker to mend his ways. The researcher concludes by recommending that these songs should be collected, collated and preserved as being an aspect of the authentic index of the people’s cultural heritage. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0786/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Evolutionary and Ideation Concepts for Cybersecurity Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 535-546
Author(s):  
David A Gould ◽  
Gregory Block ◽  
Simon Cleveland
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Biological Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Basic Concepts

Evolution is a well-established biological theory, but some basic concepts can be abstracted and applied to non-biological domains such as the education domain for the purposes of knowledge sharing. There is a gap in the literature regarding how evolutionary processes can be applied to cyber security education. This article presents the general evolutionary algorithm and pairs it with an ideation technique (SCAMPER) to illustrate how certain evolutionary processes can be applied to cyber security education and learning. This paper does not attempt to close the gap, but rather offer a theoretical approach to address the gap.

Socio-environmental reporting trends in the Italian local government: Thrive or wither?

2013 ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Bracci ◽  
Mouhcine Tallaki
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
Social And Environmental Reporting

Social and environmental reporting (SER) in the public sector has been widelydiscussed in the last years (Gray et al., 1996; Mathews, 1997; Parker 2005; Guthrieand Abeysekera, 2006; Guarini, 2002; Hinna 2004; Marcuccio and Steccolini,2005). However, despite the interest in this area of research, there are still a numberof calls to deepen the study of SER in the public sector (Lewis, 2008; Grubnikand Ball, 2007). In Italy, the literature shows the risk of adopting SER as a managementfashion, more than a conscious process of organizational change (Marcuccioand Steccolini, 2005). This paper investigates about the reasons for theadoption and eventual abandonment of SER by local government in Italy.

Central Regulation of Local Government Borrowing: A Game-Theoretical Approach

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Carlsen
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Central Regulation ◽  
Local Sector ◽  
Game Theoretical Approach ◽  
Budget Policy ◽  
Debt Policy

In this paper the author considers whether central authorities should regulate local sector borrowing. Local government's debt policy is modeled as the outcome of a two-period game between three agents: Central government, local government, and a bureau which produces services on behalf of local government. A key assumption of the model is that neither central nor local government is able to undertake long-term budget commitments. Two rationales are found for central regulations. First, local government is prevented from using deficits strategically to extract higher grants from central authorities. Second, the debt limit gives credibility to local government's budget policy towards the bureau.

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