Effective knowledge sharing within project teams is critical to knowledge-intensive professional service firms. Prior research studies indicate a positive association between trust, social-cognitive factors, and effective knowledge sharing among co-workers. The conceptual framework proposed here builds on these studies, and draws from theoretical foundations from the organizational behavior, psychology, information studies, sociology, and management literature on organizational trust and knowledge sharing, and identifies the most significant factors found to influence organizational knowledge sharing directly and indirectly through trust. The study makes methodological contributions in the form of conceptualizations for knowledge sharing behavior, trust, and tie strength. Also, it provides a more nuanced and focused analysis, by factoring for knowledge type and co-worker working relationship. Data were collected from 275 knowledge workers (‘legal professionals’ and paralegals) engaged in shared legal project work, at one of Canada’s largest multijurisdictional law firms. The nature of their work required a significant reliance on co-workers, for both explicit and tacit knowledge. Multiple regression analysis, among other statistical techniques, was used to test the hypotheses and determine significant relationships. Of the factors examined in the study, the three found to have the strongest effect on respondents’ trust in their co-workers were shared vision, shared language, and tie strength. Furthermore, the two factors found to have the strongest effect on organizational knowledge sharing behavior were trust and shared vision. Overall trust was also found to have a mediating effect between shared vision and knowledge sharing behavior, and between shared language and knowledge sharing behavior. A significant implication for practitioners is that effective knowledge sharing among co-workers requires a nurturing manager to work on developing co-worker trust and shared vision. Furthermore, a manager wanting to promote trust between co-workers must nurture shared language and shared vision.

Knowledge-sharing practices are all the actions aimed at improving the internal flow and use of knowledge within a virtual team. The collective knowledge of team members only becomes powerful if it is shared among those who possess common goals. The main purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge-sharing practices of Hogan Lovells’ virtual team of legal information professionals and establish how these practices could be enhanced in order to provide a superior information service to the firm’s lawyers. Hogan Lovells is a multinational law firm with offices in South Africa and England, and its virtual team of legal information professionals were experiencing challenges in sharing knowledge. The study adopted a qualitative methodology and a case-study research design. Interview guides were used to collect qualitative data from study Participants. Out of the 23 potential interviewees from the London and Johannesburg team who were purposively selected as the target population for the study, the researcher interviewed 14 on reaching the point of saturation. The Participants interviewed were in possession of suitable information related to the objectives of the study. Qualitative data collected were analysed using content analysis; findings were then made from the completed analysis. From the findings, it emerged that there were several gaps in the knowledge-sharing practices. Several enablers to the knowledge-sharing practices by legal information professionals were identified. The study recommended several ways by which the knowledge-sharing practices at Hogan Lovells’ virtual team of legal information professionals may be enhanced, amongst which are: formalising team meetings as a virtual community of practice, stimulating informal peer mentoring, valuing storytelling and regularly conducting After-Action Reviews. In addition to this, the virtual team should use other knowledge-sharing practices, such as brainstorming, subject-matter experts, and face-to-face virtual meetings. The study suggested that additional studies, particularly surveys and quantitative studies, be conducted on other virtual teams of legal information professionals in South Africa in order to explore their knowledge-sharing practices. / Information Science / M. A. (Information Science)

While several U. S. firms have invested in Knowledge Management (KM) tools and software, it has become apparent that investments must be made in additional facets of KM, such as knowledge sharing (KS), thought by many researchers to be the most important component of KM. Of the two types of KS, explicit and tacit, the sharing of tacit knowledge has been shown to contribute the most to an organization’s performance. However, since tacit knowledge is difficult to both convey and acquire, this unshared tacit knowledge may ultimately harm an organization when, without the appropriate knowledge, individuals cannot effectively perform their professional responsibility. Although research has been conducted on the motivators that contribute to the sharing of tacit knowledge, the research has been conflicting. These inconsistencies could conceivably stem from measuring KS as a single factor rather than as separate components. The purpose of this study was two-fold, first to discover what motivators contributed to the sharing of tacit knowledge and second, to discover whether the sharing of knowledge when solicited differed from the sharing of knowledge when not solicited. Utilizing the Theory of Reasoned Action and Self-determination Theory as well as measuring the transfer of knowledge through externalization, as expressed by the SECI model, three research questions and 14 different hypotheses contributed to a survey instrument resulting in 370 usable survey responses. Employing confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, analysis of the data confirmed that a significant difference existed between the solicited and unsolicited sharing of tacit knowledge. This study found that measures for external, integrated, and intrinsic motivation differed among the two situational constructs of knowledge sharing. In addition, the study confirmed that a difference occurred between motivators and the two types of sharing when the sharing was mediated by a favorable attitude toward sharing.

企業面臨產業環境及國際化的挑戰，企業必須持續強化競爭優勢，但在企業需要快速累積內部優勢時，組織往往因內部知識傳承產生落差，導致無法有足夠的應變力及執行能力。而中階主管更是組織中承上啟下最重要的階層，但其訓練卻因行業差異性、管理問題與專業的相互交織，使得難度加大，因而造成企業中階主管的斷層嚴重，更使企業的經營更加艱鉅。 面對這樣的問題，司徒達賢教授建議企業可用內部實際個案發展與教學，訓練主管聽、說、想的能力，有利企業內部知識的傳承與中階主管的養成。故本研究以個案研究法、個案公司主管的深度訪談並結合教學方法、知識管理等理論內容，探討企業內部個案教學成功關鍵因素，並發展出企業內部中階主管之個案發展與教學之有效模式。 本研究認為： 一、 企業內部個案發展與教學成功關鍵因素包括： (一) 高階主管的認同。 (二) 先從簡單的個案開始，再到較複雜的個案。 (三) 授課講師對個案的了解程度。 (四) 學習者的投入。 二、 企業內部中階主管個案發展與教學之有效模式如下： (一) 先訂出各部門中階主管的必要技能與知識(要達成哪些訓練目的)。 (二) 依照訓練目的，挑選(或撰寫)適合的企業內部個案。 (三) 企業內部個案發展模式：個案雛型發表、個案與教學指引初稿、個案驗 證、個案教學。 (四) 企業內部個案教學模式：先講述基本的專業概念，再結合經典個案進行個 案教學討論。 / Facing the challenges from the dynamic industry environment and globalization, companies need to improve the organizational internal knowledge learning capability to enhance their competitive strength. However, the knowledge transferring and sharing might be ineffective if the middle management team (MMT) can not fully implement the company’s strategy or play the bridging role between top management teams and line staffs due to their busy routine jobs and different professional backgrounds. The ill-training and invalid succession in organizational internal knowledge of MMT makes the companies difficult to operate effectively and efficiently. To solve the above problem, Prof. Seetoo proposes a method, called “Corporate Internal Case Writing and Teaching”, to overcome the obstacle of the company knowledge sharing and transferring as well as to provide a systemic structure to create and accumulate the company valuable lessons for business practices. This study attempt to explore the key success factor of corporate case teaching for the MMT by conducting case study and in-depth interviews on the basis of knowledge management and case study method. The major conclusions of my research include: 一、 The key success factors of corporate internal case writing and teaching: (一) The recognition and support by top management team. (二) From the easier cases to the complex ones. (三) Fully understanding of the case background by the facilitators. (四) Fully preparation and dedication to cases by the attendances. 二、 The efficient mechanisms for the corporate case writing and teaching for the middle management team include: (一) Identifying the needed knowledge and skills for the middle management firstly. (二) Selecting the appropriate case based on the purpose of training. (三) Developing the model of case writing: the prototype of the case, the initial draft of the case and the teaching note, the verification of the case, and finally the case teaching. (四) Developing the model of case teaching: to start with the introduction to the basic professional concept, and then proceed with the discussion of typical cases.

在知識經濟的時代裡，「知識管理」已成為學校組織管理與組織學習的核心議題，而「知識分享」更是其中重要的一環。因此，對教學場域中影響「教師」知識分享的相關因素之瞭解必有實務上的意義，尤其是屬於華人人情等特質相關因素的影響是本研究的探索旨趣。 從組織行為的角度去思考教師在學校的知識分享(分為資訊分享、行動示範、情境化知識分享、知識共構四個構面)，主要受到個人、人際、組織層面因素的影響。本研究從本土的人情概念出發，組織層面再加上對創新的關注，探討人情在個人層次(人情特質—忠恕取向、人情束縛、關係取向)、人際層次(情感與工具性關係)與組織層次(情感、關係、創新、法制)是如何地影響著國民中學教師彼此的知識分享意願與行為。 本研究對190位教師進行預試，進行對預試量表信效度檢驗並修正後，進行正式施測，正式施測時回收了583份有效問卷。以相關分析、多元迴歸分析、變異數分析、典型相關分析與結構方程模式分析，驗證本研究之假設並做延伸的探討。 本研究主要發現如下： 一、相對於知識分享的其他構面，教師們以行動示範同事進行知識分享的意願最低、實際行為也最少。 二、學校資訊設備與教師個人資訊能力對教師的資訊分享有正向影響；學校對課程時間與開放空間的彈性安排對教師之知識分享意願有提昇效果，亦促進了知識分享行為的實踐。 三、具忠恕特質、易受人情束縛的教師，其知識分享意願愈高，而展現出的實際知識分享行為也愈多，又尤以具高忠恕特質的教師最甚。 四、教師對與其情感親密的同事相較於僅屬工作關係而交往之同事會有較高的知識分享意願，也會有較多的知識分享行為。 五、若教師所在學校文化愈趨創新求變、情感支持、法制取向，則其知識分享的意願愈高、所展現出的知識分享行為愈多；關係取向文化則與知識分享意願、行為無顯著相關。又其中， 創新求變的學校文化對教師知識分享行為的實踐尤為重要。 六、教師愈具忠恕取向特質者，其所知覺到學校文化中的情感支持程度愈高；教師愈具關係取向特質，其所知覺到學校文化中「關係取向」程度愈高。 七、教師的知識分享意願愈高，則其所展現出的知識分享行為愈多。教師具有高知識分享意願時，若學校有「研究討論會」的安排，教師的知識分享行為愈多。 八、教師愈具忠恕特質，則其知識分享意願也高，進而產生較多的知識分享行為，知識分享意願是重要的中介變項。而若教師分享的對象愈屬情感性關係者，則其知識分享意願也高，進而產生較多的知識分享行為，知識分享意願亦是重要的中介變項。但若教師處於高創新求變的學校文化中，則教師不一定知覺其有知識分享意願，甚至在違反意願的情況下可能直接產生知識分享行為。 　　最後，本研究根據上述發現針對教育實務層面與未來研究提出具體建議以供參考。 / A Study of the Relationships among Teachers’ Renqing Traits of Teachers, Interpersonal Affection, Organizational Culture and Knowledge Sharing in Junior High School By Chien-Heng Yeh Abstract The main purposes of this study were to understand the status quo of knowledge sharing willingness and behaviors among junior high school teachers, as well as examine the relationships among the teachers’ Renqing(人情) traits, interpersonal affection, organizational culture and knowledge sharing. From literature review, knowledge sharing was divided into four aspects---information sharing, action modeling, situated knowledge sharing, and knowledge co-constructing. Renqing traits were also divided into three aspects as Zhongshu(忠恕), Renqing constrain(人情束縛), and Guanxi(關係). People with zhongshu trait mean they’re kind and empathic, those with renqing constrain trait are difficult saying “no” to others and apt to be constrained by renqing, while people with guanxi trait have the belief that interacting with others is to utilize their relationship as an instrument to acquire certain kind of resource. 　　Meanwhile, the interpersonal affection variable was composed of expressive ties(情感性關係) and instrumental ties(工具性關係). The former means both parties are intimate, as well as care about each other; the latter represents the two-person relationship is just on the job. Moreover, the organizational culture in this study contains the four dimensions--- innovative flexibility, affective support, guanxi(關係取向), and law-governed orientation. This study adopts the survey method by questionnaire. A pilot test was conducted with 190 teachers. Having examined the reliability and validity of the questionnaire and revised it, the modified one was then given to the subjects who the study is targeting at. In this study, the subjects were public junior high school teachers in Taiwan. Returned valid questionnaires were amount to 583 .The collected data were analyzed through product-moment correlation, multiple regression, one-way and two-way ANOVA, canonical correlation and structural equation modeling. The conclusions of this study were as follows： (1)teachers’ willingness and behavior frequency to participate in action modeling are the least, in comparison with other aspects of knowledge sharing. (2)The information technology(IT) equipment in school and personal IT ability have the positive influence on the information sharing willingness and behaviors of teachers; the flexible curriculum time and open space arranged in the campus have the effect to facilitate the knowledge sharing willingness and behaviors of teachers. (3)The teachers with more zhongshu, renqing constrain traits have higher willingness of knowledge sharing, and more behaviors than those with less zhongshu, renqing constrain trait, especially, the zhongshu trait. (4)Teachers have higher willingness of knowledge sharing with those are expressive ties, and more behaviors than those are instrumental ties with them. (5)The three dimensions of school culture--- innovative flexibility, affective support, and law-governed orientation had all significant positive related with the willingness and behaviors of teachers’ knowledge sharing,but guanxi orientation did not.Among them, the innovative flexibility of school culture is the most important. (6)The zhongshu trait of teachers and the degree of affective support culture in school have influence on and interplay with one another. Similarly, the guanxi trait and the degree of guanxi orientation culture in school do, too. (7)Their knowledge sharing willingness and behaviors have impact on and interplay with the other. Besides, teachers with high willingness really share knowledge with colleague when the seminar was actually held in school. (8)Teachers with high zhongshu trait have more knowledge sharing behaviors, via high willingness of them.That is,the willingness is the important mediate variable. Nevertheless,teachers have more sharing behaviors to those that are expressive ties with , via high willingness of them. That is,the willingness is the important mediate variable. But if teachers were in the school of high innovative culture, they directly participated in knowledge sharing activity, not via willingness, even violating their willingness. 　　Finally, some suggestions are proposed based the aforementioned conclusions for further studies and for the practice of education.

大多數組織都存有各種資訊以及成功解決問題的經驗，但是由於缺乏知識管理之應用，這些資訊或經驗都不是很容易累積，且經常需要重複花費許多時間去找尋或整合一些零散的知識，造成組織資源與成本的浪費。 本研究以政大商學院為例，集中探討研究型知識與研究人員，並參考Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)所發展之SCORM content aggregation model提出一個最佳實務模型The Shareable Researching Knowledge Object Reference Model (SREKORM)，希望透過對研究型知識的的系統管理，協助研究人員知識分享、創新，更可為組織累積智慧，創造價值。主要建議如后： (1)將知識呈現方式由傳統的文件轉換為知識物件呈現方式。 (2)將知識搜尋方式由傳統的全文檢索轉換為知識物件檢索方式。 最後，經由論文訪談的方式，了解研究人員從理論及實務對本研究的觀點，並驗證本研究付諸實行之可行性。 / Knowledge is generally available, but not always readily accessible, due to lack of knowledge management in most organizations. So people within organization always spent duplicate time to search or summarize scattered information. This study will focus on researching and researchers based on the College of Commerce, National Chengchi University, and reference the SCORM content aggregation model put forward by Advanced Distributed Learning, and then intends to develop a best practice of researching knowledge--The Shareable Researching Knowledge Object Reference Model (SREKORM), for the purpose of assisting innovation, knowledge sharing and accumulated. The proposal is as follows: (1) To transform the form of knowledge representation from traditional documents to knowledge objects (2) To transform the methods of retrieving knowledge from the traditional full text to knowledge objects. Finally, through case interview, the viewpoints of researchers regarding the theories and actual practices in research at NCCU can be understood and verified the availability of set up of SREKORM in NCCU offered by the current study.

Production sites in international manufacturing networks tend to have different responsibilities and roles in the network. One common classification of plants is to divide the sites into one core plant and several other production units or subsidiaries, where the core plant has an active role in the creation and transfer of knowledge, innovation and know-how, concerning products and processes. Efficient knowledge management within the manufacturing network is seen as a key success factor for companies and consequently an issue of high strategic priority for firms. In a time where the firm's competitive advantage lies in the ability to efficiently transfer knowledge among the plants in the network, it becomes increasingly important for the core plant and its subsidiaries to possess the required capabilities to be able to address the complexity of knowledge management and successfully manage, transfer, receive and apply the knowledge. The aim of the study is therefore to explore how knowledge can be transferred from the core plant to its subsidiaries and which capabilities and prerequisites that are required by both the core plant and the subsidiaries to achieve an efficient knowledge transfer. To achieve the aim of the study, a literature review and a case study at GKN Aerospace has been performed, which included semi- structured interviews, observation and document studies. The case study explores knowledge management and knowledge transfers both from a general network perspective and through three applied knowledge transfers projects that have been performed at the case company. The studied projects are knowledge transfers and collaborations between the site in Trollhättan, which has a natural but informal role of supporting other sites in the network, and three different sites in the United states; El Cajon, Newington and Cincinnati. The empirical findings were categorized into two main parts; general knowledge transfers in the network and the specific projects. These findings were then compared to the theoretical framework in the analysis to provide a discussion around each research question. The analysis constitutes the foundation for the conclusions, discussion and recommendations. In the conclusion of this study the importance of formalizing the responsibilities and roles of the sites in a manufacturing network is highlighted. It is also crucial to assign a team of supporting experts, with the responsibility of performing and improving the knowledge sharing and transfer activities performed in the organization. To achieve a successful knowledge transfer between sites it is, further, essential to establish a clear and straightforward strategy in terms of knowledge management to facilitate the transfer and sharing in the network and reduce the complexity. Guidelines identified in this study, for working with knowledge transfers, are to use a structured process, a solid planning, assure the involvement of all parties and perform face- to- face meetings at the receiving site. / Fabriker i internationella tillverkningsnätverk tenderar att ha olika ansvarsområden och roller i nätverket. En vanlig klassificering är att dela in de i en core plant och flera andra produktionsenheter eller systerfabriker (subsidiaries) där core plant innehar en aktiv roll i skapandet och överföringen av kunskap, innovation och “know-how” när det kommer till produkter och processer. Effektiv knowledge management inom tillverkningsnätverket ses som en viktig framgångsfaktor för företag och är följaktligen en fråga med hög strategisk prioritet. I en tid då företagets konkurrensfördelar ligger i förmågan att effektivt överföra kunskap mellan produktionsenheterna i ett nätverk, blir det allt viktigare för core plant och dess systerfabriker att besitta de förmågor som krävs för att kunna hantera komplexiteten i knowledge management. Fabrikerna måste på ett framgångsrikt sätt kunna hantera, överföra, ta emot och tillämpa kunskapen. Syftet med studien är följaktligen att undersöka hur kunskap kan överföras från en core plant till dess systerfabriker samt de förmågor och förutsättningar som krävs av både core plant och systerfabrikerna för att uppnå en effektiv kunskapsöverföring. För att kunna uppnå syftet med studien har en litteraturstudie och en fallstudie, på GKN Aerospace, genomförts. Fallstudien inkluderar semi-strukturerade intervjuer, observationer och dokumentstudier. I fallstudien undersöks knowledge management och kunskapsöverföring både från ett generellt nätverksperspektiv och genom att studera tre tillämpade projekt som har genomförts på fallföretaget. De studerade projekten innefattar kunskapsöverföring och samarbete mellan fabriken i Trollhättan, som har en naturlig men informell roll i att stötta andra fabriker i nätverket, och tre olika produktionsenheter i USA; El Cajon, Newington och Cincinnati. De empiriska resultaten har kategoriserats i två huvuddelar; generella kunskapsöverföringar i nätverket samt de specifika projekten. Resultaten har sedan jämförts med studiens teoretiska referensram i en analys för att tillhandahålla en diskussion kring varje forskningsfråga. Analysen utgör grunden för studiens slutsatser, diskussion och rekommendationer. I studiens slutsatser lyfts betydelsen av att formalisera ansvar och fabrikers roller i ett nätverk. Det är också nödvändigt att tillsätta en grupp av supporterande experter med ansvaret att genomföra och förbättra kunskapsöverföringar samt dela och sprida kunskap inom organisationen. För att kunna uppnå en lyckad kunskapsöverföring mellan fabriker i nätverket är det, ytterligare, av vikt att etablera en tydligt och rättfram strategi i form av knowledge management för att underlätta kunskapsöverföring och -delning i nätverket samt för att reducera komplexiteten. Riktlinjer för att arbeta med kunskapsöverföringar, som har identifierats genom studien är användandet av en strukturerad genomförandeprocess, en gedigen planering, involverande av alla parter i kunskapsöverföringen samt att personligen träffa den mottagande arbetsgruppen på plats på den fabriken. / COPE - Core Plant Excellence

In der Privatwirtschaft ist Geschäftsprozessmanagement (GPM) mittlerweile verbreitete Praxis. Mit den stärker wirkenden demografischen Veränderungen, dem zunehmenden Kostendruck, dem daraus folgenden Ressourcenmangel sowie den gestiegenen Dienstleistungsansprüchen der Verwaltungskunden nimmt die Bedeutung von Wissensmanagement und GPM auch in der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu. Trotz eines größtenteils einheitlichen Gesetzesrahmens werden in der Verwaltung Geschäftsprozesse unterschiedlich ausgestaltet. Zwischen Projekten, die Verwaltungsprozesse zum Gegenstand haben, gibt es zu wenig Austausch von Expertise und Erfahrungen. Die Erkenntnisse aus der erfolgreichen Umsetzung von Prozessmanagement in der Privatwirtschaft sind nicht ohne weiteres in die Verwaltungspraxis übertragbar. Daher widmen wir uns in einem zweiten Beitrag verschiedenen Umsetzungsstrategien von GPM in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Europa. Vor dem Hintergrund der derzeitigen Implementierung bzw. des Reifegrads von GPM in einzelnen Verwaltungen ist GPM längst kein integraler Bestandteil der Organisationen. Insbesondere ist die Bereitschaft, Wissen über Geschäftsprozesse zu teilen, ist sehr begrenzt. Wir untersuchen in einem weiteren Beitrag, welche Umstände, Treiber und Hemmnissen den Prozesswissens-Austausch in öffentlichen Organisationen beeinflussen. In einem abschließenden Beitrag stellen wir die wesentlichen Bausteine eines föderalen Informationsmanagements in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland dar. Dabei haben wir untersucht, wie Daten und Informationen aus den Bereichen Leistungen, Prozesse und Formulare der öffentlichen Verwaltung miteinander zu kombinieren und zu integrieren sind. / Business Process Management (BPM) is already widely used in the private sector. The importance of knowledge management and BPM in the public administration also increases due to the advancing demographic change, the increasing cost pressures, the consequent lack of resources as well as the increased demand of customers for administrative services. Despite a uniform legal framework, the business processes are executed differently in different administrations. There is little exchange of expertise and experience between BPM projects. The goal of the research project “National Process Library” (NPL) is to create a platform to exchange and reuse processes and BPM expertise about and among German administrations. For the dissertation at hand, essential design elements of this platform have been designed and have been subject to a first evaluation. Many findings about the successful implementation of process management in the private sector cannot be directly transferred to the public administration, as there exist important differences. Hence, the second contribution focuses on the different implementation strategies of BPM in public administrations in Europe. The current degree of implementation and maturity of BPM in public administrations is generally low. Many administrations face similar challenges and offer identical or overlapping services. However, the willingness to share knowledge about business processes is very limited. Therefore, the exchange of process knowledge could lead to immense savings. The third contribution investigates the circumstances, drives and inhibitors to improve process knowledge sharing in public organizations. The last contribution represents the essential components of a federal information management in the public administration in Germany. The derived framework combines and integrates data and information from the areas of services, processes and forms of public administrations.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-10-08T15:50:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Manfred Weinberg_.pdf: 1835574 bytes, checksum: 46b2cf436002a018205b8d7e607c8d19 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-08T15:50:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Manfred Weinberg_.pdf: 1835574 bytes, checksum: 46b2cf436002a018205b8d7e607c8d19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-27 / Nenhuma / Os Times Virtuais Globais têm características específicas em relação às equipes presenciais, e a dinâmica de trabalho e relações interpessoais são mais complexas em um time virtual, sendo necessário gerenciar de forma diferente. Em grande parte, isso ocorre pelo fato de os componentes de um time virtual global terem impactos com a tecnologia de comunicação (não é face to face) e muita interação eletrônica como meio de integração. Aliado a isso, existem barreiras no processo de trabalho, como diferenças culturais, fuso horário e idioma, que aumentam muito os desafios em relação às equipes presenciais. A presente dissertação buscou investigar e analisar os fatores-chave na gestão de um time virtual global sob o prisma de uma multinacional de um país em desenvolvimento. O método utilizado foi o estudo de caso único, por se tratar de um caso contemporâneo e pela acessibilidade dos dados, quando o pesquisador tem acesso limitado a outras fontes (GIL, 2002). Para análise de dados, foi utilizada a triangulação das informações e a técnica de conteúdo. Os resultados evidenciam fatores-chave para boa gestão dos times virtuais, corroborando com outras pesquisas sobre o tema. No entanto, este estudo permitiu observar peculiaridades, como fatores específicos em um país em desenvolvimento que não foram verificados na literatura. / Global virtual teams have specific characteristics in relation to face-to-face teams and the work dynamics and interpersonal relationships are more complex in a virtual team, and it is necessary to manage differently. This is largely due to the fact that the global virtual team components have communication technology impacts (not face to face) and a lot of electronic interaction as integration possibility. In addition, there are barriers in the work process such as: cultural differences; time zone; language, which considerably increases the challenges in relation to face-to-face teams. The present dissertation looked for to investigate and analyze the key factors in a global virtual team management under the multinational in a developing country focus. The method used was the single case study, because it was contemporary with limited data accessibility, when the researcher has limited access to other sources (GIL, 2002). For data analysis was used the triangulation data and content technique. The result shows key factors for virtual team’s good management, corroborating with other research on this subject. However, this study allowed us to observe peculiarities such as specific factors in a developing country multinational that were not verified in the literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Laura Gallucci.pdf: 446325 bytes, checksum: 24d272ec328a59fb171cf8634ffa23e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-08 / Knowledge management has most frequently been studied focusing on the explicit knowledge and technological support, and has been perceived as a logical evolution of traditional information systems. Deriving from this view, it has been implemented mainly by companies which operations demand high technology. This way to perceive knowledge management tends to exclude organizations in which tacit knowledge is the main asset, as it occurs at colleges and universities; these organizations fit the concept of knowledge companies , because their main goals are create, manage and disseminate knowledge, their services are mainly intangibles and their quality is directly linked to quality and knowledge (mainly tacit) kept it as individual intellectual capital, in their teachers mind. Adding to this scenery the fast raising of competition in private colleges and universities in Brazil, it s possible to observe the implementation of knowledge management in these teaching institutions as a key-factor to guarantee their survival and competitivity, because of it contribution to increase the quality of teaching services offered. According to this situation, the goal for this dissertation is to establish the main basis for a knowledge management model, specially developed to supply colleges and universities characteristics, and have their focus on sharing knowledge (mainly tacit, but also explicit) among the members of their teaching staff. To reach the proposed goal, two research questions has been explored: which should be the basis to the model and which are the internal conditions for higher education institutions that increase or decrease the probability for a knowledge management model to be successfully implemented. In the search for a conceptual deepening related to research questions, an historical method was used, reviewing concepts and theories about knowledge management in the last fifty years, and the comparative method, with the analysis of different bibliographic sources, followed by selection of the most suitable to this work goal. To reinforce the applicability of knowledge management models to organizations reality, the methodological procedure also included the selection and analysis of real cases, studies and researches with three focuses: knowledge management in business, knowledge management in higher education institutions and the impact of loss of main collaborators in the intellectual institutional capital. The resulting model contains the main basis to implement knowledge management in higher education institutions and supplies particularities for an important part of these institutions, which culture does not stimulate the sharing of knowledge and which are not willing to make significant investments in innovations that can t have their effectiveness proved beforehand / A Gestão do Conhecimento tem sido estudada, com maior freqüência, focando o conhecimento explícito e o suporte tecnológico, sendo percebida como uma evolução lógica dos tradicionais sistemas de informação. Em decorrência dessa visão, ela vem sendo implementada, sobretudo, por empresas cujas operações estão ligadas à tecnologia de ponta. Esta forma de perceber a Gestão do Conhecimento tende a excluir organizações em que o conhecimento tácito é o principal ativo, como ocorre nas instituições de ensino superior; estas se enquadram no conceito de empresas do conhecimento , pois suas principais funções são gerar, gerir e disseminar conhecimento, seus serviços têm alto grau de intangibilidade e sua qualidade está diretamente ligada à qualidade e ao conhecimento (principalmente tácito) armazenado sob a forma de capital intelectual individual na mente de seus professores. Somando-se a este quadro o aumento acelerado da concorrência no setor do ensino superior privado no Brasil, pode-se perceber a implementação da Gestão do Conhecimento nessas instituições de ensino como um fator-chave para garantir sua sobrevivência e sua competitividade, por sua contribuição para aumentar a qualidade dos serviços educacionais prestados. Face ao cenário apresentado, o objetivo desta dissertação é estabelecer as principais bases de um modelo de Gestão do Conhecimento especialmente desenvolvido para atender às características das instituições de ensino superior, e cujo foco está no compartilhamento de conhecimento (sobretudo tácito, mas também explícito) entre os membros de seu corpo docente. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, duas questões de pesquisa foram exploradas: quais devem ser as bases do modelo e quais são as condições internas às instituições de ensino superior que aumentam ou reduzem a probabilidade de que um modelo de Gestão do Conhecimento seja implementado com sucesso. À busca de um aprofundamento conceitual em relação às questões de pesquisa, utilizou-se o método histórico, com a revisão de conceitos e teorias sobre Gestão do Conhecimento nos últimos cinqüenta anos, e o método comparativo, com a análise e a seleção das fontes bibliográficas mais adequadas à finalidade deste trabalho. Para reforçar a aplicabilidade de modelos de Gestão do Conhecimento à realidade das IES, o procedimento metodológico também incluiu a seleção e a análise de casos reais, estudos e pesquisas com três focos: a Gestão do Conhecimento em empresas comerciais , a Gestão do Conhecimento em instituições de ensino superior e o impacto da perda de colaboradoreschave no capital intelectual institucional. O modelo resultante contém as principais bases para a implementação da Gestão do Conhecimento em instituições de ensino superior e atende às particularidades de boa parte dessas instituições, cuja cultura não estimula o compartilhamento do conhecimento e que não se dispõem a fazer investimentos significativos em inovações cuja eficácia não possa ser comprovada de antemão