Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub3
Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap

Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap

Claretha Hughes, Matthew W. Gosney
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466699984|ISBN10: 1466699981|EISBN13: 9781466699991
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9998-4.ch001
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Hughes, Claretha, and Matthew W. Gosney. "Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap." Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap in Human Resources Development, edited by Claretha Hughes and Matthew W. Gosney, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9998-4.ch001

APA

Hughes, C. & Gosney, M. W. (2016). Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap. In C. Hughes & M. Gosney (Eds.), Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap in Human Resources Development (pp. 1-19). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9998-4.ch001

Chicago

Hughes, Claretha, and Matthew W. Gosney. "Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap." In Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap in Human Resources Development, edited by Claretha Hughes and Matthew W. Gosney, 1-19. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9998-4.ch001

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

The crux of the challenge in bridging the scholar-practitioner gap in Human Resource Development is in creating effective mechanisms for the transfer of knowledge between scholars and practitioners. Emerging literature on the topic of knowledge management, and of knowledge management systems, provide a compelling point of view in which to consider the scholar-practitioner gap in HRD. In the chapter, knowledge management systems, as a functional outcropping of systems theory, are considered along with the use of logic models to develop and evaluate organization and program effectiveness. Preliminary research results conducted by Hughes and Wang (2015) gives further support to the notion that considering HRD as a knowledge management system may provide a framework for bridging the scholar-practitioner gap.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.