Leadership Education for Knowledge Organizations: A Primer

Abstract

As we move rapidly into the 21 st century leaders face the challenge of being effective in a global knowledge environment. Now, more than ever, leaders must play the key role in helping organizations cope with the challenges they face from expanding knowledge and knowledge systems. Leaders must guide changes in a climate of increased competition to fill customer demands. This paper addresses the nature of the rapidly changing knowledge organization through an exploration of the traditional leadership paradigms, an examination of current trends in knowledge management and the learning organization, and by finally considering the role of leaders and leadership education in the emerging knowledge organization.

Transformational Leadership and Innovative Behavior: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing in Indonesian Private University

“…The research result of Chow and Wu (2006) showed that TL significantly influences on organizational innovation. TL promotes innovation and improves knowledge creation compared with transactional one (Crawford and Strohkirch, 2002). Imran and Anis-ul-Haque (2011) found evidence that TL also affected innovation behavior, directly or indirectly.…”

Organizational factors and process capabilities in a KM strategy: toward a unified theory

“…Transformational leaders are those that motivate and inspire their followers and empower them in the process of decisionmaking. Crawford and Strohkirch (2002) claim that transformational leadership promotes knowledge creation. In addition, Martín-de Castro et al (2011) and Politis (2001) state that this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Surprisingly, the results of the previous studies conducted by Nguyen and Mohamed (2011) and Analoui et al (2012) imply that both transactional and transformational leadership styles are positively associated with KM activities.…”

Effects of transformational leadership and organizational position on knowledge management

“…One behavioral manifestation of innovation is the ability to create and manage information and knowledge. Given the substantial relationship between innovation and transformational leadership, research looking at the relationship of one outcome of innovation (knowledge management) and transformational leadership seems deserving of further investigation (Bryant, 2003;Crawford and Strohkirch, 2002). Mahoney (2000, p. 241) crystallized the position well:…”