Knowledge management as organising inquirers

Abstract

This paper is about the management of personal knowledge. The perspective taken on knowledge management is one of organising, or nurturing knowledge workers; staffs that need to constantly learn from their own inquiries. The paper argues that knowledge can be managed but our conceptualisation of management needs to change from one of planning and control to one of nurturing creative ideas in its knowledge workers in a diverse and complex global environment. The personal perspective of knowledge is discussed, as is the idea of managers as the designers of innovation from employees. These are combined to emphasise a particular perspective on knowledge management.