ORGANIZATION LEARNING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

Organization Learning

Organization Learning

Introduction

Private industry has long recognized information technology's power to reduce costs. By effectively using information technology (IT), companies have increased efficiencies in their management and operations. These efficiencies often lead to an increase in the fiscal bottom line, which is a benefit for the shareholders of the corporation. The technology tools used most often encompass computer hardware, software, and networks, including the Internet.

Technology has a positive impact on the economy and productivity of organizations in the private sector. A report by McKinsey Global Institute reveals that although it is complex and varies across industries, information technology enables and contributes to economic growth (2002). Technology gains have allowed private industries to keep a competitive edge over their rivals, develop new products and services, realize substantial increases in output and productivity, and ultimately provide fiscal savings (Corder, 2001).

Article 1: Social cultural and Interpretive Approach and the Critical Uptake

Schulz's words lay the foundation for the concept of social construction of reality, which was developed by Berger and Lukemann. Within this framework, knowledge of the social product. That is created and transmitted through the interaction in specific contexts. Knowledge is inseparable from the time and place where the action is.

The social nature of tacit knowledge has been demonstrated in Orr (1990, also cited in Spender, 1996), ethnographic research on organizational learning. In their study, which examines the creation and dissemination process of repairing copying machines. First showed that the explicit knowledge of the whereabouts of copying on the basis of the tacit knowledge gained practical knowledge about how to troubleshoot client. Secondly, practical knowledge in context as a user of the machine by machine, not on how you set up the machine. Third, the socialization of repair, the researchers found that practical knowledge is formed and stored in the stories shared by technicians. Storytelling between functional recovery as a way of creating and sharing knowledge.

In the following article the main emphasis is on how learning relates to identity. According to him, identity is a nexus of past / present and social / individual. The process of identity formation is the same process of negotiation of the present in the path of past and future, individual and social. How a person can learn depends on the location where he or she is in these paths. Thus, by engaging in the practice of learning, as distinct social practices, an individual is caught in a series of social configurations, ie, power, identity, collectivist and subjectivity.

Article 2: Critical Analysis on Information Technology and Communication in the Social Management of Government

The management thought of the twentieth century was marked by the philosophy of the generation of capital, where almost all philosophical bases of the fed period of capitalist development. The powerful arguments neo-positivists, existentialists, post-modern and modern taught us to "work" aligned to the development of goods and services that generate resources, a disproportionate manner incompatible with the planet, degenerative, sequential and specialized. Disproportionate technological development was one of the greatest ...