Leading knowledge management in a secondary school

What is it about?

This paper tries to explore the influence of the Principal’s leadership in kicking-off Knowledge Management (KM), a promising strategy for organizational improvement and the following KM processes in the school. The author tries to propose a model of Knowledge Leadership for principals to adopt at the beginning of KM journey and during the process of KM implementation. The paper is to share the lessons learned during the process of implementation: what he has done and what should be improved. Thus, this paper can provide a model for school principals to implement KM in their schools. This paper can also shed light to KM researchers about the issue of leadership during KM implementation.

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Why is it important?

This study could make contributions for KM implementation in the public sector, especially in schools. Moreover, the approaches, the strategies, the processes, and the challenges the principal and the school faced can shed light on practice and research for further KM implementation. In addition, although leadership has been commonly regarded as an important factor in KM implementation, few studies have explored the impact of leadership during the KM process. With principal’s leadership as the main component, this study is important for analysis of the role of leadership during the process. The framework of Knowledge Leadership adopted in this study has been tried and evaluated to be applicable and necessary for KM implementation in a school environment. This study shows that the principal’s leadership was the key driver for KM Implementation in a school. The principal performed his leadership with clear direction and thoughtful procedures of implementing Information-Based and People-/Interaction-Based Approaches, thoughtful allocation of the school resources, and shaping learning for staff.

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