Knowledge Management

Ravi Kiran, Parul D. Agarwal and Anil K. Verma

SAGE Open, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 2158244013484915

Abstract: The present study covers the knowledge management (KM) in institutions of higher technical education (IHTEs) from the perspective of thought leaders and junior academia to identify whether there is a difference of opinion regarding KM strategies, including knowledge technologies, knowledge acquisition, knowledge storage, knowledge dissemination, and KM-based framework for research and curriculum development (CD). Data have been collected through structured questionnaire from 141 respondents covering 30 higher educational institutions in India, including national- and state-level institutions—Designations of the targeted respondents in the IHTEs have been categorized into (a) senior academia, that is, professors, heads, and associate professors occupying senior management positions, considered to be the institute overseers and thought leaders of KM and (b) junior academia consisting of assistant professors and lecturers who are using and also contributing to the KM system. ANOVA has been used to see whether there is a significant difference of opinion among the two groups of knowledge users. The results of the study highlight a significant difference among the two groups regarding knowledge technologies, knowledge acquisition, knowledge storage, and knowledge dissemination. But, there is a consensus regarding KM-based framework for research and CD.

Keywords: information users; information science; social sciences; education; criminology; academics; educational measurement and assessment; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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