An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context

Over the years, businesses have transformed from the traditional manufacturing-oriented to service-oriented. Along with this, tacit knowledge has become more crucial as organizations move toward innovation and service orientation. In summary, the knowledge of an organization's workforce is taci...

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Main Authors: Amidi, Asra, Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah, Abdullah, Rusli, A. Jabar, Marzanah, Khalefa, Mustafa S.
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Published: IEEE 2015
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Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah
Abdullah, Rusli
A. Jabar, Marzanah
Khalefa, Mustafa S.
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description Over the years, businesses have transformed from the traditional manufacturing-oriented to service-oriented. Along with this, tacit knowledge has become more crucial as organizations move toward innovation and service orientation. In summary, the knowledge of an organization's workforce is tacit knowledge related to their belief and expertise, which can be difficult to define, given its inexpressible characteristics. The practice of knowledge management is often associated with the use of information systems and the effort to codify, share and create knowledge using relevant knowledge management systems. Although social media is widely adopted by organizations to enhance the effectiveness of knowledge sharing practices, there is still a large amount of uncertainty on whether information systems act as an environment for the sharing of tacit knowledge. The purpose of this study is to understand the significant role of social media in offering tacit knowledge. Wiki, because of its collaborative and conversational bases, was chosen as an example of a social media and the methodology undertaken in this study is literature review. This study contributes to a discussion on the increasingly important role of social media in the dissemination of tacit knowledge in an organizational context.
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spelling upm-482492016-08-04T07:50:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48249/ An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context Amidi, Asra Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah Abdullah, Rusli A. Jabar, Marzanah Khalefa, Mustafa S. Over the years, businesses have transformed from the traditional manufacturing-oriented to service-oriented. Along with this, tacit knowledge has become more crucial as organizations move toward innovation and service orientation. In summary, the knowledge of an organization's workforce is tacit knowledge related to their belief and expertise, which can be difficult to define, given its inexpressible characteristics. The practice of knowledge management is often associated with the use of information systems and the effort to codify, share and create knowledge using relevant knowledge management systems. Although social media is widely adopted by organizations to enhance the effectiveness of knowledge sharing practices, there is still a large amount of uncertainty on whether information systems act as an environment for the sharing of tacit knowledge. The purpose of this study is to understand the significant role of social media in offering tacit knowledge. Wiki, because of its collaborative and conversational bases, was chosen as an example of a social media and the methodology undertaken in this study is literature review. This study contributes to a discussion on the increasingly important role of social media in the dissemination of tacit knowledge in an organizational context. IEEE 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48249/1/An%20overview%20on%20leveraging%20social%20media%20technology%20for%20uncovering%20tacit%20knowledge%20sharing%20in%20an%20organizational%20context.pdf Amidi, Asra and Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah and Abdullah, Rusli and A. Jabar, Marzanah and Khalefa, Mustafa S. (2015) An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context. In: 9th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MySEC 2015), 16-17 Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (pp. 266-271). 10.1109/MySEC.2015.7475231
spellingShingle Amidi, Asra
Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah
Abdullah, Rusli
A. Jabar, Marzanah
Khalefa, Mustafa S.
An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title_full An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title_fullStr An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title_full_unstemmed An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title_short An overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
title_sort overview on leveraging social media technology for uncovering tacit knowledge sharing in an organizational context
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48249/
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