GRA 2426 Organisational Learning and Knowledge Creation - RESIT EXAMINATION
GRA 2426 Organisational Learning and Knowledge Creation - RESIT EXAMINATION
Organisational learning, managing knowledge sharing, knowledge development and knowledge management are considered vital to organisations for continuing improvements and implementation of new visions, strategies and knowledge domains through change and innovation processes. It is also of crucial importance for competitive advantage and attaching the best employees within a knowledge society. Hence, many scholars and practitioners have joined in the debate around the many faceted relationship between learning, knowledge, knowing, development and change processes. As a consequence, the concepts of organisational learning and knowledge management have developed into a number of approaches and perspectives, all to increase our understanding of how to apply concepts and theories for implementation in organisational practices.
The aim of this course and the learning goals will be:
- To give students and understanding of, and raise questions on, the nature of organisational learning, knowledge management and knowledge sharing, recognizing its complexity and crucial value in all organisations
- Provide students with necessary knowledge on how organisational learning and knowledge capabilities concepts can be understood and facilitated in organizations, with a special focus on organisational and leadership facilitation
- Understand the importance of knowledge, knowing and knowledge sharing and be able to participate in the knowledge debate in our society
- Recognizing the challenges in the transformation from educational and theoretical knowledge to applied knowledge and knowing in professional life, and with this knowledge understand the role of education in a society
- Be able to analyse complex phenomenon and work independently
- Be critical and nuanced and be able to balance own interpretation of relevant methods, both qualitative and quantitative
- Take responsibility of own learning processes and own knowledge development, both as students and in professional life
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- The concepts of Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management
- Disciplinary Perspectives on Learning, Knowledge sharing, managing Knowledge, Knowing and Competences at work
- OL and Knowing as Participation, Practice and Processes in Organisations
- The Learning Organisation - Leading through KM
- An Organisational Learning and Knowledge Capabilities Framework
- Knowledge Intensive Firms - Knowledge sharing and Trust
- Knowledge Work and Knowledge Sharing - Tacit and Explicit knowledge
- Communities of Practice and Network of Practices - exploring the challenges of Learning and Change
- Social identity, Emotions, Trust and Working Environment
- Newcomers Learning Processes - Organisational Socialization
- Change Management and Innovation - Strategic Leadership
- Leadership and Middle Management
- Power and Politics - Sensemaking and Sensegiving
- Teams and Projects as facilitators for Learning and Knowing (Knowledge Sharing)
- Managing Knowledge for Change and Innovation
- Organisational Culture - Cultural Leadership - creating a strong Learning Culture
The course is structured as a combination of lectures, discussions, in-class activities, and compulsory student presentations. It requires a substantial amount of preparation by the students and active involvement during class.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have spesific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 72 Hour(s) Comment: Take-home examination Exam code: GRA24261 Grading scale: ECTS |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.