Organizational behaviour in times of change

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management Corporate Governance Universities of Applied Sciences Wien (International Management & Communication) course: Leadership and Changemanagement language: English abstract: Over the last years the topic of knowledge management has rapidly grown in importance among business managers and information systems practitioners. Business organisations worldwide increasingly recognize the effective use of knowledge as a key-differentiating factor and as the most important resource for potential economic success (Stewart 1998). As a result many IT companies are implementing new applications and techniques to better manage knowledge.Knowledge management systems are in fact quite common but a truly successful one is rare. To be successful such a system must create an environment in which people can share their best practices increase the quality of their knowledge and help each other solves problems. Systems that effectively capture and build intellectual capital while minimizing the burden on individuals however are unusual (King 2002). Nowadays more and more organisations discovering social media tools like wikis blogs and forums and use them to capture knowledge.