Knowledge Management
PostgraduateTAS-JNB7352025
Previously TAS-JNB515
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Knowledge Management
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Critically evaluate the key knowledge assets of an organisation using an appropriate framework.
- Investigate the challenges and obstacles of knowledge sharing in an organisation.
- Develop appropriate tools and strategies to overcome the obstacles to facilitate knowledge sharing.
- Design and evaluate strategies to more effectively manage the knowledge assets in an organisation.
- Module 1: Introduction to Knowledge Management (KM)
- Module 2: Knowledge and Knowledge Assets
- Module 3: Capturing Tacit Knowledge
- Module 4: Codifying Knowledge
- Module 5: Knowledge Sharing and Communities of Practice
- Module 6: Knowledge Application and Organisational Learning
- Module 7: Obstacles to Knowledge Transfer
- Module 8: The Role of Organisational Culture in Knowledge Management
- Module 9: Developing a Knowledge Management Strategy
- Module 10: Measuring the Effectiveness of KM
- Module 11: The Knowledge Management Team
- Module 12: Legal and Ethical Issues in KM
This subject explores the need for knowledge to be managed in an organisation, and the tools and strategies that can be used to effectively manage the knowledge assets of that organisation. The subject starts with the identification of knowledge assets in an organisation, followed by knowledge capture and codification in order for knowledge to be shared and integrated into the organisational level. The subject then explores topics on individual and organisational learning and how learning can be encouraged and facilitated. Obstacles to knowledge transfer are identified together with an examination of the role of organisational culture in facilitating knowledge sharing. The subject also explains the formation of knowledge management (KM) strategies and the need to have a KM team. Measurement of KM effectiveness and legal and ethical issues of KM are dealt with in the last two modules. The focus of the subject is on the maritime and logistics industry and the challenges and obstacles associated with knowledge management in such a globalised industry.
- Online Discussion (15%)
- Case Study: Knowledge Management in a Chosen Organisation (10%)
- Case Study (35%)
- Final Exam - Take home (40%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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Master of Business Administration in Maritime Management
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Master of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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