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AUTOR(ES)
Paco Alvaro Enríquez Martínez
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
The present study aims at investigating knowledge management in the present day society as one of the outcomes expected from universities. Knowledge plays a crucial role as societys economic input. Knowledge fuels society as a whole since the fast technological development and the concern with quality turned into the new logical order of production. Knowledge is an issue studied from the beginning of society for the sake of the understanding of the world but today it has been approached as an economy instrument and quite often misunderstood as information. Its management has been one of the main targets in the mission of the universities. The latter have turned into the main reference concerning the production and development of knowledge. Since the beginning of the telecommunication era, that traditional role of the universities started to be shared with other institutions such as enterprises, consultancies and private organizations dedicated to the production of applied research. In the beginning of the XXI century doubts came up about the role and power of the universities to provide knowledge as required by the economic production. Knowledge management has been disputed by universities and those institutions. That dispute raises many questions such as "whether universities are leading that process?" "If they are not, who is leading it?" "In that case what is the role of the universities in relation to the demands of society for knowledge?" And finally, "what are the relationships between universities and those organizations which share with them the production of knowledge?" In order to provide answers to these questions, two paths were designed and integrated as the content of this thesis. First, a broad analysis of both the requirements of knowledge management and the doings of universities were carried out; and secondly an empirical survey of the opinion of some experts in knowledge management about the ideal and the performed roles of the universities to accomplish that mission. The experts were interviewed and their answers were subjected to content analysis both through the NUD*IST 6 and the traditional methods used in social sciences. The results revealed that the universities are indeed sharing the production of knowledge but have been unable to lead that process in the present day society although they are not aside of that track. They do not lead but have significant influence in it.
ASSUNTO(S)
organizacional psychology psicologia organizacional psicologia social ambiente universitário knowledge management recursos humanos personnel college environment gestão do conhecimento social psychology
