ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT (OKME)/ LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (LE) AND CONCERNS OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS (OE)
Keywords:
Knowledge-Management Environment(KME), Learning Environment in Organizations, Organizational Effectiveness(OE), Learning Organizations(LO), Engineering Professionals, Knowledge-sharing, Knowledge-management Tools in Organizational learning, Training & Development Facilities.Abstract
The main aim is to explore the existing Organizational Knowledge Management Environment (KME) in three districts in and around Kolkata, India, to find out managerial issues that affects KME and organizational performance. It is assumed that organizational performance and its effectiveness largely depends upon KME parameters of the organization. Organizational knowledge –sharing among the personnel definitely enhances individual performance as well as organizational effectiveness (OE). Hence correlation between KME and OE has been studied to find the nature and degree of relation between the two important aspects of Organizational functioning. Through a questionnaire survey, both the aspects have been studied in 17 organizations among 170 Engineering professionals having more than 10 years’ of experience and the data collected has been analyzed using various statistical tools to come to plausible conclusions about organizational behaviours in existence and suggestions have been made to overcome difficulties in maintenance of a conducive KME that could increase OE in the larger interest of social benefit , development and welfare and development of Organizational Culture that could withstand global competition.
