Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives
Author: Kerr Inkson
"Kerr Inkson has made a really valuable contribution. A powerful illustration of how metaphor influences thinking about careers. The book shows how metaphor helps us to understand our own thought-patterns and predispositions and is very effective in integrating the different branches of career studies Very clear, and well argued. Right on the mark!"
--Gareth Morgan, Author, Images of Organization, Distinguished Research Professor, York University, Toronto
Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives uses a unique framework of nine archetypal metaphors to encapsulate the field of career studies. Using an easy-to-read style, author Kerr Inkson examines key concepts, illustrating them with over 50 authentic career cases, to build an excellent bridge between theory and "real life."
Key Features:
- Provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary theory and research: Offering a wider perspective on the subject than any other book currently on the market, Understanding Careers includes material from various viewpoints relevant to career studies, including sociology, life-span psychology, differential psychology, social psychology, education, career development, counseling, organizational behavior, and human resource management. In addition, the book covers the key theories and researchers who have shaped the study and practice of careers.
- Uses metaphor for imaginative coverage: By successively considering the career successively as an inheritance, a cycle, an action, a journey, a role, a relationship, a resource, and astory, the authors view careers through different lenses, with each adding to the richness of the concept.
- Presents illustrative case studies: With over 50 provocative case studies, including some of well-known personalities, theory is illustrated through real-life examples.
- Offers an ongoing student case-study project: A sequenced career case-study write-up, with exercises related to each chapter, allows students to apply book concepts to ongoing cases of their own.
- Includes an Instructor's Manual on CD: providing PowerPoint slides, class exercises, and worked-through case studies. (Available by request to SAGE customer service.)
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Performance Through Learning: Knowledge Management in Practice
Author: Carol Gorelick
HRM/Knowledge Management
Performance Through Learning:
Knowledge Management in Practice
Carol Gorelick, Nick Milton, Kurt April
"Most books on KM focus on either practice or theory. Performance Through Learning brings them together using real experience to bridge across know-what, know-how, know-why and know-when. Regardless of where you are on your KM journey, this book will help you take a next step."
— Kent Greenes, Chief Knowledge Officer & Sr VP, SAIC
"This is the most definitive work I know of that clearly links knowledge management strategy with enhancements in organization learning. Complete with several first-hand accounts of related case studies, Gorelick and her collaborators make it clear to all who will listen that KM has become a powerful, new social science, not a fleeting technology, and is here to stay!"
— Mark W. McElroy, President, Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI), CEO, Macroinnovation Associaties, LLC
"Performance Through Learning is a terrific book that does a great job in presenting the challenges and opportunities of knowledge management and organizational learning. The case studies highlight best practices of companies around the world. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in preparing organizations to successfully face the future."
— Dr. Mike Marquardt, Professor, George Washington University; Author, Building the Learning Organization
Performance Through Learning: Knowledge Management in Practice is a practical guide to the key issues surrounding knowledge management from a human resource perspective and provides incisive insights into developing astrategy linked to organizational learning. The international author team present a framework and model that practitioners within organizations can adapt to increase performance through learning using knowledge management tools. The book is divided into two parts and includes:
*An overview of theory
*Case studies and practitioner stories from a range of KM initiatives
*Tools and techniques for implementing an effective KM strategy
By drawing on real-life examples across a variety of organizational settings, from large global financial and professional service firms to small charities in the voluntary sector, Performance Through Learning: Knowledge Management in Practice provides a complete understanding of the theory that supports knowledge management in the current business environment.
Carol Gorelick is co-founder of Solutions for Information & Management Services, Inc., a management consulting company.
Nick Milton is Vice President and co-founder of Knowledge Transformation International.
Kurt April is Senior Lecturer and Sainsbury Fellow at the Graduate School of Business at University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Table of Contents:
| Pt. I | Setting the context for knowledge management as a method for organizational learning | |
| 1 | The knowledge management mandate : performance through learning | 3 |
| 2 | A framework for performance through learning to produce results | 25 |
| 3 | Going deeper : elements of knowledge for action to produce results | 41 |
| 4 | Creating a culture for learning | 51 |
| 5 | Structures that support learning | 63 |
| 6 | The bottom line - measuring knowledge management initiatives : return on investment | 87 |
| Pt. II | Voices of experience : applying knowledge management tools | |
| 7 | British Petroleum's knowledge management journey : a decade of change | 101 |
| 8 | Knowledge management in the aid and development sector : a case study in implementation at Tearfund | 143 |
| 9 | Knowledge management in business performance at BP Well Engineering | 163 |
| 10 | Implementing knowledge management within De Beers : the early years | 181 |
| 11 | Knowledge fuel for fighting fires : knowledge capture at Ukuvuka, a four-year government, business, and community partnership | 197 |
| 12 | Where did we start? : building our own knowledge park at Old Mutual | 217 |
| 13 | Generating capabilities in communities of practice : the Clarica story | 231 |
| 14 | Building membership firm through practice communities at Arthur Andersen | 253 |
| 15 | Piloting knowledge management : lessons learned from the small-scale approach to design and implementation at ETS | 275 |
| 16 | Knowledge management at Shell : innovation and integration | 297 |
| 17 | Assessing readiness to successfully implement a knowledge management strategy : back to basics at Debswana | 317 |
| App. A | Readiness survey for a KM initiative | 349 |
| App. B | Conversational practices | 365 |
| App. C | Knowledge management processes | 383 |
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