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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: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522583561|ISBN10: 1522583564|EISBN13: 9781522583578
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8356-1.ch084
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Hughes, Claretha, and Matthew W. Gosney. "Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap." Human Performance Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 1716-1735. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8356-1.ch084

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Hughes, C. & Gosney, M. W. (2019). Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Human Performance Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1716-1735). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8356-1.ch084

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Hughes, Claretha, and Matthew W. Gosney. "Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System: The Importance of Bridging the Scholar-Practitioner Gap." In Human Performance Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1716-1735. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8356-1.ch084

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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.

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