Student Must Apply Saudi Mgt 403 Saudi Electronic

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Student Must Apply Saudi Mgt 403 Saudi Electronic

Submission Guidelines

  • All students are encouraged to use their own words.
  • This assignment is individual assignment.
  • Be very specific and focused on the issue while answering a question.
  • Student must apply Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines and review at least three (3) scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles to support their answer for each question.
  • A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.
  • No marks will be given for irrelevant details.
  • It is strongly encouraged that you should submit all assignments into the safe assignment Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading.
  • If the assignment shows more than 25% plagiarism, the students would be graded zero.
  • The references are not less than three.

Assignment 1.

This Assignment is based on the Material covered in week 2 to week 4.

The focus of the assignment is to evaluate the understanding level of students related to basic concepts of knowledge management. Students are required to:

Read the material covered in week 2 to week 4 thoroughly from book as well as other sources.

Based on your readings answer the following questions.

Assignment Questions

Question 1:

Explain the concept of Knowledge management. Discuss the role of knowledge management in present day organizations. (1 Mark)

Question 2:

  • Describe how the major types of knowledge are transformed in the Nonaka and Takeuchi knowledge spiral model of KM. Use a concrete example to make your point. (1 Mark)
  • Which transformations would prove to be the most difficult? Why?(0.5 Mark)
  • Which transformation would prove to be easy? Why? (0.5 Mark)
  • What other key factors would influence how well the knowledge spiral model worked within a given organization? (0.5 Mark)

Question 3:

  • In what ways is the Choo and Weick KM model similar to the Nonaka and Takeuchi KM model? In what ways do they differ? (1 Mark)
  • Why is it difficult to directly codify tacit knowledge? (0.5 Mark)