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HOW TO EDUCATE MANAGERS TO SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN THEIR COMPANIES?

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28120%2F17%3A63517631" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28120/17:63517631 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    HOW TO EDUCATE MANAGERS TO SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN THEIR COMPANIES?

  • Original language description

    Managers need to be educated in many fields. Last years the managerial practice shows how it is important when managers know how to create the knowledge sharing culture in their companies. But in reality, not many space is devoted to this in managerial courses or study programmes for managers or students of management and leadership. The aim of this article is to bring the answer to the research question: How to educate managers to support knowledge sharing culture in organisations? The results published in this article are based on empirical study, a primary research among 204 managers acting in the Czech Republic, mostly managers from industrial enterprises and commercial companies. 62 respondents were members of top management; the rest were middle line managers. The average length of their duties in managerial work was 9 years. This empirical study shows what is the current situation among the Czech managers and this paper presents particular results only. It is said that the best way how to educate someone is to be a role-model for him/her, walk the talk. That is why one of the particular research questions focussed on this fact: &quot;Are managers in the Czech Republic the role-models of knowledge sharing for their employees?&quot; The results show that more than 60 percent of respondents share their knowledge with the others so we can say they are a role-models for their employees. This number is not very high if we realize that every manager can influence many people in the company. Another interesting fact was proved that role-models are more frequent on the top management position, than the middle management position. Maybe the top managers experienced better education or top managers much more realize that it is good for the whole company to be the role-model and share their knowledge. When educating managers to be a role-model of knowledge sharing could be significant also the fact, if the managers themselves had experienced personal benefit from knowledge sharing. This lead us to the second particular research question: Can personal experience with having a mentor (or any other person behaving as the mentor) help managers to create the knowledge sharing culture? The results proved that managers, who had not any mentor, are less wilful to transmit their knowledge to further generation in comparison with managers who experienced having a mentor. So personal experience with having a mentor helps managers to be the role-models of knowledge sharing for their employees. When speaking about education of managers to support knowledge sharing in companies, the paper also discusses that managers can be motivated by presentation of research findings which shows how the corporations can benefit from knowledge sharing. The second part of the article brings the answer to the question: &quot;What can the managers do to support the knowledge sharing in a company?&quot; It is the content of such education of managers. Mostly it is about creating the knowledge sharing culture in corporations. Because there is really big space for improvements, the article brings practical recommendations to the top managers, the HR managers, and first line managers that can be applied by them to support knowledge sharing in the company. The social context of knowledge sharing is discussed, as well as the question: “How to build the mutual trust among employees?”

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50204 - Business and management

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Article name in the collection

    INTED2017 Proceedings

  • ISBN

    978-84-617-8491-2

  • ISSN

  • e-ISSN

    neuvedeno

  • Number of pages

    10

  • Pages from-to

    7944-7953

  • Publisher name

    IATED Academy

  • Place of publication

    Valencia

  • Event location

    Valencia

  • Event date

    Mar 6, 2017

  • Type of event by nationality

    EUR - Evropská akce

  • UT code for WoS article