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What is Knowledge Practitioner/Worker

Chapter 7
Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage
Individual employees or other organizational members who work with and combine various abstract concepts of knowledge to solve problems for the benefit of an organization. Their knowledge is based on structured and accredited learning, which is then applied in different ways to resolve business problems and create value for an organization. An example is business analysts who combine their education and experiences to evaluate business opportunities and potential. Such knowledge practitioners might use a CoP to discuss various aspects of a business, to arrive at a combined perspective they may not necessarily have achieved on their own. In this way, sharing knowledge is of great value to the firm for which these practitioners work.
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Samson and Delilah as a Discourse of Communities of Practice
Jennifer Adelstein (University of Technology, Australia & International College of Management, Australia)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-802-4.ch007
Abstract
The chapter conceptualizes that an impasse may arise between management and knowledge practitioners in divulging the quantity and quality of knowledge made available for organizational use. Rather than facilitating the flow of information from knowledge practitioners to the organization, CoPs may become another conflicted terrain of unequal power relationships. While laying out these possibilities, the chapter also suggests that there could be a different outcome, one that rebalances the pendulum of power relationships for the mutual benefit and interests of both management and knowledge practitioners.
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