Theoretical part: Basic terms of knowledge management, knowledge worker, knowledge creation and conversion process, prerequisites and benefits of knowledge management. Knowledge management and it's connection to organizational culture and structure, result measurements of knowledge management, learning organization and it's connection to knowledge management. Tacit knowledge management tools -- stories -- types, how to create, practical use, communities, coaching. Value Based Organization. Practical part: Characteristics of organization, value based organization in reality, classification of stories from organization, organizational values, stories in detail, stories in customer care, stories in back line departments. Propsal on improvement of tacit knowledge management in organization -- employee training, mutual inspiration, front line department visits, modifications of organizational values.

The main goal of my thesis is to suggest a methodology for a knowledge management implementation and to implement this methodology in a chosen organization. The last part of my thesis deals with the critical aspects of the knowledge management implementation and possible solutions. Organizations, which haven't started with knowledge management implementation yet, are in a disadvantage compare to the organizations which have already implemented knowledge management into their processes. The importance of a human capital is still growing and the organizations need to know how to work with knowledge of their employees effectively.

Search for the knowledge within big companies could become pain not only for knowledge seekers, but as well for knowledge managers in case they want a solution, that reflects well actual state of knowledge of a company, allows discovering emerging areas of knowledge and at the same time its maintenance does not require huge amounts of effort. This doctoral thesis starts by a comprehensive analysis of needs of expertise location of current company, description of theoretical backgrounds, related approaches and fundamental directions in expertise location, analyses their advantages and disadvantages and on the ground of this analysis presents a new expertise location technique that tries to avoid disadvantages of current expertise location systems by keeping their advantages. The technique is designed to respect the needs of effective knowledge management within a company, which main assets are their employees, their knowledge reflected in unstructured documents they produce as a part of their daily work. Described knowledge mapping technique analyses document publication history of company members and proposes various measures to asses and characterize their knowledge. The implementation of the knowledge mapping technique allows its direct usage (as an expert search engine) as well as its own evaluation (validity of search engine results). The efficiency of proposed measures on various types of document sources (project directories/versioning repositories/etc.) and within various dimension configurations (current/overall knowledge search) is evaluated by the practical evaluation method introduced within the thesis. The evaluation took place in the environment of a middle-sized software company allowing seeing directly a practical usability of the expertise location technique. The results of the evaluation are presented not only in statistical form, but in a form of suggestions of how to implement the model on various document sources within the company. The results suggest that described knowledge mapping technique is a viable approach in expertise location.

Financial exchange markets are institutions that have a unique place in the system of market economy and are rightly considered to be the main pillars of the financial markets. Especially thanks to its functional and social status. The recent development of information and communication technologies has been significantly changing the exchange market systems. This thesis deals with the exchange market's system. In the theoretical part of the paper is the main attention paid to the decomposition of the whole complex into subsystems and characteristics of its individual components, in particular trading and information subsystem within the structure of the exchange market. The practical part is devoted to research the presence of tacit knowledge and its impact on trading.

This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a major consolidation of state agencies in Texas. It pays special attention to how the changes were perceived by the knowledge workers by interviewing those that were impacted by the changes resulting from the reorganization. The overall goal is to assess knowledge management in times of great organizational change by analyzing the impact of consolidation on knowledge management in Texas's Health and Human Services agencies. The overarching research question is what happened to the knowledge management structure during this time of great change? The first research question was what was the knowledge worker environment during the time of change? The second research question was what was the knowledge management environment of the agencies during the time of change? The last research question was did consolidation of the HHS agencies diminish the ability to transition from tacit to explicit knowledge? Additionally, the study investigates how the bill that mandated the consolidation was covered in the local media as well as the actual budget and employee loss impact of the consolidation in order to better understand the impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents as a result of major organizational restructuring. The findings have both theoretical and practical implications for information science, knowledge management and project management.

Being engaged can look different for each individual. So what does it mean to be a committed pedagogue at the after-school center today and how are students given a meaningful leisure time? The purpose of this study is to investigate how the student is affected by the pedagogue's commitment to the after-school center and what the reason may be to why the commitment is lacking. Our study is qualitative and the methods we have used are both structured and participatory observations together with subsequent group discussions with students. Our conclusion is that the pedagogue's commitment affects the student and has a great importance for motivation and the student's further desire to learn. It is the pedagogue who should be the confident, supportive, inspiring and motivating adult role model who gives the student the right conditions for further development and learning with regard to each student's individual characteristics. However, we see that the commitment can be difficult to maintain due to the framework factors that often set limits in leisure activities. Therefore, we hope, with our study, to highlight the importance of being engaged as an pedagogue and to give an eye-opener to what should be changed for the after-school centers to be of the best quality. / Att vara engagerad kan se olika ut för varje individ. Så vad innebär det att vara en engagerad pedagog på fritidshemmet idag och hur ges eleverna en meningsfull fritid? Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur eleven påverkas av pedagogens engagemang på fritidshemmet samt vad det är som kan vara anledningen till att engagemanget brister. Vår studie är kvalitativ och de metoder vi har använt oss av är både strukturerade samt deltagande observationer tillsammans med efterföljande gruppsamtal med elever. Vår slutsats är att pedagogens engagemang påverkar eleven och har en stor betydelse för motivationen och elevens vidare lust att lära. Det är pedagogen som ska vara den trygga, stöttande, inspirerande och motiverande vuxna förebilden som ger eleven de rätta förutsättningarna till vidare utveckling och lärande med hänsyn till varje elevs individuella egenskaper. Dock ser vi att engagemanget kan vara svårt att hålla vid liv på grund av de ramfaktorer som ofta sätter begränsningar i fritidsverksamheten. Därför hoppas vi, med vår studie, belysa vikten av att vara engagerad som pedagog samt att ge en ögonöppnare till vad som bör förändras för att verksamheten ska bli av bästa kvalitet.

Competitive advantage and financial performance of an organization is influenced by the knowledge it possesses, making Knowledge Management (KM) a vital field. Components of KM were often studied separately and in specific settings, while research regarding Knowledge Transfer (KT) and Knowledge Storage (KST) in the steel manufacturing industry is limited. The aim of this thesis is to address this research gap by creating a conceptual framework regarding storing and transferring knowledge in the steel manufacturing industry and explaining how steel manufacturers can transfer tacit knowledge. In order to achieve the aim, a single case study with a Swedish steel manufacturing company was conducted. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews on three levels; managers, production leaders and floor workers, and through direct non-participant observations of the production floor and KM systems. The findings of this thesis contribute to the theory by exploring similarities and differences between the context of steel manufacturing industry and the current KM, KT and KST literature. The findings also propose practical implications that can facilitate the process of managing knowledge for companies in similar contexts. Firstly, this thesis suggests three approaches in which tacit knowledge can be transferred, through; socialization, externalization, and learning-by-doing and mentoring; and secondly, suggests a Knowledge Flow Framework in which the interplay between KT and KST is presented. / En organisations konkurrensfördelar och finansiella resultat påverkas av den kunskap den besitter, vilket gör Kunskapshantering till ett viktigt område. Komponenter i Kunskapshantering har ofta studerats separat och i specifika kontexter, medan forskningen om Kunskapsöverföring och Kunskapsbevaring inom ståltillverkningsindustrin är begränsad. Syftet med denna studie är att ta itu med denna forskningsklyfta genom att skapa ett konceptuellt ramverk för att bevara och överföra kunskap inom ståltillverkningsindustrin och förklara hur ståltillverkare kan överföra tyst kunskap. För att uppnå syftet har en enskild fallstudie genomförts med ett svenskt ståltillverkande företag. Data har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer på tre nivåer; chefer, produktionsledare och golvarbetare, och genom direkta icke-deltagande observationer av produktionsgolvet och kunskapshanteringssystem. Fynden av denna studie bidrar till teorin genom att utforska likheter och skillnader mellan kontexten för ståltillverkningsindustrin och den aktuella litteraturen gällande Kunskapshantering, Kunskapsöverföring och Kunskapsbevaring. Fynden föreslår också praktiska implikationer som kan underlätta hantering av kunskap för företag i liknande kontexter. För det första föreslår denna studie tre tillvägagångssätt där tyst kunskap kan överföras, genom; socialisering, externalisering, och learning-by-doing och mentorskap; och för det andra föreslås ett Knowledge Flow Framework där samspelet mellan Kunskapsöverföring och Kunskapsbevaring presenteras.

Little is known about the prevalence of substance use and abuse among individuals with intellectual disabilities. However, studies show that individuals with intellectual disabilities are at greater risk of developing substance abuse problems. Furthermore, traditional drug abuse treatment programs may be insufficient in order to tackle the individual needs of the users with intellectual disabilities. This study focuses on addiction counsellors, and aims to give insight into how they experience their work with individuals who are suffering from intellectual disabilities and substance abuse. In this study, qualitative interviews were conducted with five counsellors from two different municipal organizations. Subsequently, the analysis of the results has been categorized thematically, supported by Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucrats and Polanyi’s notion of tacit knowledge. The results suggest that the professionals are experiencing several challenges in their work with the target group. The lack of knowledge and insufficient national guidelines regarding the work with the target group, in combination with treatment methods that are not adapted to the needs and the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities, leave the professionals in a situation where their experiences and tacit knowledge is used to design and conduct the target group’s treatment.

This thesis's purpose was to gain a deeper understanding of how organizations create knowledge retention (KR), both proactively (day-to-day basis) and reactively (when an employee decides to resign), to avoid knowledge loss. A qualitative multiple case study was conducted through semi-structured interviews, with eight respondents from eight different organizations. An analytical model based on Levy’s (2011) KR framework and Nonaka and Takeuchi's (1995) knowledge spiral model was developed as a tool to understand the KR process in practice. The study found that all studied organizations worked proactively to retain knowledge, either structured or unstructured. The respondents with a structured, proactive KR process did not apply a reactive KR process, showing that they are more prepared for handling potential knowledge loss when employees resign. The respondents that did not apply a structured, proactive KR process applied a reactive knowledge retention process, where the main explanation for this was lack of time or unawareness of the process. Furthermore, no clear groups emerged in the empirical material as the companies faced different challenges at each stage of the analytical model. Lastly, the study concludes that these findings could be particularly relevant for organizations seeking to conduct KR processes to avoid losing valuable knowledge.

Syfte: Återkommande fel och problem i byggprojekt är idag vanligt förekommande. Erfarenhetsåterföring är något som företag kan dra stor nytta av, då ett arbete inom ämnet kan reducera onödiga kostnader samt öka ett företags konkurrenskraftighet på marknaden. Rapporten studerar ett konsultföretags arbetssätt med erfarenhetsåterföring och vid slutfört arbete dras en slutsats om svårigheter samt förbättringsmöjligheter kring ämnet. Metod: Den valda forskningsstrategin är i form av en fallstudie gentemot konsultföretaget. Intervjuer utförs med hjälp av företagets tjänstemän på konstruktion- och arkitektavdelningen. Dessutom upprättas en dokumentanalys på fallföretaget och en litteraturstudie kring ämnet erfarenhetsåterföring. Resultat: Studien visar att företaget har verktyg för ett arbetssätt gentemot erfarenhetsåterföring. Dock har med otydliga krav ifrån ledningen att kontinuerligt arbeta med erfarenhetsåterföring har resulterat i att det inte sker till en stor utsträckning. Studien visar att bland annat att tidsbrist och bristande ansvarsområden har resulterats i att erfarenhetsåterföring inte är högt prioriterat. Mycket av den kunskapsdelningen som sker idag sker under spontana tillfällen under fikaraster och liknande. Analys: Analysen visar att erfarenhetsåterföring är en viktig del för ett företags utveckling. Genom att ta vara på kunskaper kan både tid och pengar sparas in genom att inte uppfinna hjulet på nytt. Det kan också öka kvalitén på produkten. De hinder som står i vägen för ett effektivt användande av erfarenhetsåterföring handlar bland annat om att medarbetare saknar incitament, främst tid till att genomföra erfarenhetsåterföring. Studien har visat att intresset finns där men genom otydlighet har erfarenhetsåterföring fallit mellan stolarna. Genom att fördela ansvaret, implementera erfarenhetsåterföring som en given del i arbetsprocessen och ställa tydliga krav på vad som förväntas av medarbetarna kan kunskapsdelning bli framgångsfaktor för ett företag. Diskussion: Rapporten har visat att arbetet med erfarenhetsåterföring kan vara väldigt varierande beroende på vem som är uppdragsledare för projektet. Det är många gånger upp till personen i sig i vilken utsträckning som erfarenhetsåterföring ska ske, vilket kan leda till att det fungerar väldigt olika från grupp till grupp men också från kontor till kontor. En annan diskussionsfråga är hur vida pandemin har påverkat erfarenhetsåterföring. Idag arbetar flera hemifrån vilket har gjort att arbetsstrukturen har förändrats och kanske inte hunnit anpassa sig till det nya rutinerna. / Purpose: Recurring errors and problems in construction projects are common. Experience feedback is something that companies can benefit greatly from, as work in the subject can reduce unnecessary costs and increase a company's competitiveness in the market. The study will investigate a consulting company’s approach towards experience feedback and on completed work draw a conclusion about difficulties and opportunities for improvement on the subject. Method: The chosen research strategy is in the form of a case study towards the consulting company. Interviews are conducted with the help of the company's officials in the design and architecture department. In addition, a document analysis is drawn up at the case company and a literature study on the topic of experience reversal. Results: The study shows that the company has tools for a way of working towards experience feedback. However, with unclear requirements from management to continuously work with experience feedback has resulted in this not happening to a great extent. The study shows that a lack of time and a lack of responsibility has resulted in experience feedback not being a high priority. Much of the knowledge sharing that takes place today takes place during spontaneous occasions during coffee breaks and so on. Analysis: The analysis shows that experience feedback is an important part of a company's development. By taking advantage of previous knowledge, both time and money can be saved by not reinventing the wheel. It can also increase the quality of the product. The obstacles that stand in the way of effective use of experience feedback include the lack of incentives for employees, mainly the time to carry out experience feedback. The study has shown that the interest is there, but through ambiguity, experience reversal has fallen through the cracks. By distributing responsibility, implementing experience feedback as a given part of the work process and setting clear requirements for what is expected of employees, knowledge sharing can become a success factor for a company. Discussion: The report has shown that the work with experience feedback can be very varied depending on who is the project leader for the project. It is often up to the person itself to what extent experience feedback should take place, which can lead to it working very differently from group to group but also from office to office. Another question is how much the pandemic has affected experience feedback. Today, several people work from home, which has meant that the work structure has changed and may not have had time to adapt to the new routines.