An Ontology Approach for Knowledge Acquisition and Development of Health Information System (HIS)

This paper emphasizes various knowledge acquisition approaches in terms of tacit and explicit knowledge management that can be helpful to capture, codify and communicate within medical unit. The semantic-based knowledge management system (SKMS) supports knowledge acquisition and incorporates various approaches to provide systematic practical platform to knowledge practitioners and to identify various roles of healthcare professionals, tasks that can be performed according to personnel’s competencies, and activities that are carried out as a part of tasks to achieve defined goals of clinical process. This research outcome gives new vision to IT practitioners to manage the tacit and implicit knowledge in XML format which can be taken as foundation for the development of information systems (IS) so that domain end-users can receive timely healthcare related services according to their demands and needs

RELATIA FORMARE-COMPETENTE-PERFORMANTE IN MANAGEMENT

Throughout this article we want to show that an initiative of management of the knowledge is not a marginal initiative, but it imply gradually all key functions of the company. One of the strong elements of the knowledge management is indeed the continuous and professional education, namely, the process and the devices allowing the actors of the company the access and the acquisition of the new knowledge and the construction of the skills necessary for the evolution of their jobs and professions.competence building, management performances

The relationship between knowledge management practices and staff performance in Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan (SUKNS) / Intan Nurdiani Nordin

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the relationship between knowledge management practices and staff performance in Pejabat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan (SUKNS). The knowledge management practices including knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge utilization. As for the scope of the reports, the reseacher focus on the staff in SUKNS. A questionnaire was used as the main instrument for the data collection. A total of 116 respondents answered the questionnaires which represented 80% of response rate. It was found that knowledge management practices namely knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge utilization had significant positive and strong relationship with staff performance. Thus, in order to achieve improvement in staff performance, SUKNS has to ensure that the knowledge management practices were applied wisely. Besides, it also found that the most applied practices in SUKNS was knowledge dissemination compared with knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. There is also significant difference in staff performance between male and female that might due to different gendered practices. The reseacher have purposed a few recommendation for the improvement of the staff and SUKNS. One of the recommendation, the staff should be exposed into more detailed about knowledge management practices. Even though, knowledge dissemination was well applied in SUKNS, the staff also should apply the other two knowledge management practices. As for the future research, several recommendation were also made in order to improve the research on relationship between knowledge management practices and staff performance. In order to ensure whether knowledge management practices contribute to staff performance, the study should be conducted in a different organizatio

Linkage between knowledge management practices towards library user’s satisfaction at Malaysian University Libraries

Academic library services have begun to apply various knowledge management (KM) practices in the provision of library services. KM has been developed to enhance the use of organizational knowledge through practices and organizational learning. KM practices include the creation, capture and/or acquisition of knowledge, its retention and organization, its dissemination and re-use, and general responsiveness to the new knowledge. The focus of this research is the assessment of KM practices, particularly creation, acquisition, capture, sharing, recording and preservation, and their effects on Library User’s Satisfaction (LUS) in Malaysian university libraries. The objective of this research is the development of a model to enhance KM processes (i.e. Creation, acquisition, capturing, sharing, recording, and preserving) and to improve library users’ satisfaction. A quantitative approach in research methodology is employed (e.g. Questionnaire) for the purpose of generating new knowledge and understanding of library concerns. The findings of this research show that the overall KM practice at six Malaysian university libraries is at a high level. The findings from the structural model indicated that two KM processes, namely knowledge creation and acquisition, are not supported in terms of KM practices at Malaysian university libraries. Other KM processes, namely capturing, sharing, recording, and preserving are fully supported towards KM practices in the library. Hence, the major contribution of this research is a model, namely KM Practice-Library User’s Satisfaction (KMP-LUS) highlighting six KM processes based on strong Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) fit indices

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition and knowledge application. While variation in experience may permit the acquisition of valuable knowledge, additional mechanisms may be necessary to enable the subsequent application of that knowledge in a team setting. We hypothesize that team familiarity - prior experience working with team members - may be such a mechanism. We use detailed project- and individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects Consistent with prior work, we find mixed results for the effect of variation in experience on performance. We do, however, see evidence of a moderating effect of team familiarity on the relationship between these two variables. Our paper identifies one mechanism for uniting knowledge acquisition and knowledge application and provides insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects the development of organizational capabilities.Experience, Knowledge, Software, Team Familiarity, Variation