{"id":2305,"date":"2016-11-10T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-10-19T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:29:09","slug":"knowledge-management-and-job-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/11\/knowledge-management-and-job-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Management and Job Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what I find to be the biggest obstacle to managing knowledge in an organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Knowledge management is pretty simple: when someone learns something, record that information. When someone else needs that information, they don&#8217;t have to learn it again for themselves. The expense of learning is not repeated.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to do <a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/11\/knowledge-management-in-the-1980s\/\">knowledge management since the early 1980s<\/a> (no one called it knowledge management back then). The great majority of knowledge management efforts fail. In my experience, the reason is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>job insecurity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I know, what I know how to do, those things make me valuable to this organization. If my knowledge is stored and available for other people to use, what use am I? I am expendable.<\/p>\n<p>Silly thought? Maybe, but people believe this thought and act accordingly. They don&#8217;t participate in the knowledge management efforts. They would rather repeat knowledge-seeking exercises that costs tens of hours of time. They are paid to be at work, so they are paid.<\/p>\n<p>Why work yourself out of a job?<\/p>\n<p>Want a knowledge management program? Find a way to ease the job security fears. That isn&#8217;t easy, but I find it is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is what I find to be the biggest obstacle to managing knowledge in an organization. Knowledge management is pretty simple: when someone learns something, record that information. When someone else needs that information, they don&#8217;t have to learn it again for themselves. The expense of learning is not repeated. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[220,132],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge","category-management","tag-knowledge","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}