Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning
MGT3007 Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning
Assignment guidelines
This assignment has been set to test your competence in understanding and applying the significant concepts and material presented in Module 1, 2 and 3. The purpose of the assignment is to enable you to:
- illustrate your understanding of the material presented in Module 1, 2 and 3
- relate the material to a context that is relevant to specific tasks and/or of interest to you
- support your career development by enhancing your competence at knowledge management and organisational learning
Course objectives being tested in Assignment 2:
The assessment is aligned with the objectives of the course. These objectives are detailed within the course specifications. Each assessment item is based on a range of tasks that attempt to relate the material in both theoretical and practical terms.
Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (Please see Course Specification for information).
Instructions for preparing Assignment 2
Questions for the Assignment can be found below:
To meet the requirement of the report you must answer the following questions:
- Reinhardt et al.’s (2011) review of current literature shows that there are different roles of knowledge workers in organisations. Select four of the knowledge worker roles as outlined by Reinhardt et al. (2011) and critically discuss how these roles are essential to support knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing? (400 words)
- ‘Teamwork ultimately leads to effective knowledge creation’. Critically discuss the above statement with examples to support your answers. (300 words)
- Select an actual organisation known to you, and describe what industry it is in, the products and/or services it provides. Based on the resource-based theory, identify three critical resources you may find from the chosen organisation and critically discuss why these resources are critical to the organisation (500 words).
- ‘Organisations today are often flooded with data and information’. In a learning organisation, employees are often able to understand the whole organisation as well as their part in it in order to identify organisational needs and solve problems even when they are flooded with data and information. Critically discuss why the concept of organisational learning may be strategically important to your choice organisation? (400 words).
