MANAGING KNOWLEDGE IN INSURANCE COMPANIES

Melinda Plescan () and Marius Dan Gavriletea ()
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Melinda Plescan: Babes Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica, 2008, vol. 2, issue 10, pages 44

Abstract: Both public and private sector organizations are struggling with knowledge lossresulting from employee turnover. Moreover, costs of recruiting, of lost productivity andtraining to replace employees can reach huge values. Capturing knowledge inside anorganization seems to be one of the main purposes of a knowledge management professional.In the insurance industry, trade secrets, confidential information and valuable ideas are partof the workforce knowledge. Recruiting, selecting, training and managing insurance agentsconstitute a real challenge for insurance companies all over the world, and a sensitive ethics-related issue is the case of insurance agents leaving their employer, in order to transfer to acompetitor insurance company, while trying to take along as many clients as possible fromthe old employer.

Keywords: knowledge management; insurance companies; ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G22 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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