1.1 Introduction Each year corporations spend millions of dollars training and educating their - ployees. On average, these corporations spend approximately one thousand dollars 1 per employee each year. As businesses struggle to stay on the cutting-edge and to keep their employees educated and up-to-speed with professional trends as well as ever-changing information needs, it is easy to see why corporations are investing more time and money than ever in their efforts to support their employees’ prof- sional development. During the Industrial Age, companies strove to control natural resources. The more resources they controlled, the greater their competitive edge in the mark- place. Senge (1993) refers to this kind of organization as resource-based. In the Information Age, companies must create, disseminate, and effectively use kno- edge within their organization in order to maintain their market share. Senge - scribes this kind of organization as knowledge-based. Given that knowledge-based organizations willcontinuetobeadrivingforcebehindtheeconomy, itisimperative that corporations support the knowledge and information needs of their workers.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783540854234
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-540-85423-4
- Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2008
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2009
- Serie: Information Science and Knowledge Management
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 401 g
- Seiten: 138
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt