Idiosyncratic job-design practices for cultivating personal knowledge management among knowledge workers in organizations

What is it about?

It is important to integrate organisational and personal knowledge management to improve productivity and safeguard organisations against knowledge loss owing to knowledge workers’ interfirm mobility. To do so, knowledge-intensive jobs should be (re)designed by clearly outlining job responsibilities, offering opportunities for adding relevant job activities and dropping irrelevant ones, and making innovation and lifelong learning a formal job requirement. In addition, job autonomy should be judiciously provided along with adequate social and network support to avoid lost opportunities in knowledge creation and sharing, and should be linked to job responsibilities and performance appraisals to avoid any negative effects.

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