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MBA - Human Capital Management

Knowledge Management

Programme Objectives

The programme has the following aims:

• To enable the advanced study of organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate
• Equip individuals for and/or development of a career in business and management by developing skills at a professional or equivalent level to assume senior managerial and leadership positions in business
• Development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management leadership and practice.
• Enhancement of lifelong learning and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

• Demonstrate critical understanding of management theories, current issues of management, the development of conceptual frameworks to guide their application within organisations.
• Acquire a strong foundation in key functional areas of business management to enable them to succeed as effective managers/leaders in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
• Acquire and use a range of concepts, tools and techniques for problem solving and decision-making for analyzing complex and inter-related business scenarios.
• Demonstrate and apply independent research and critical skills enabling the investigation and evaluation of valid and relevant management issues and practices.
• Demonstrate initiative, insight, attitudes of responsibility and ethical leadership in the development of the strategic management agenda in the organization the participant works in or expected to work in the future.

Programme Content

Overview

The aims of this module are to develop a critical appreciation of current theories and practices of information and knowledge management with a view to applying theoretical understanding of information and knowledge management to real life situations.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Discriminate between the nature of information and knowledge from a strategic perspective.
• Justify placing theories of the strategic use of knowledge and information in the context of a diverse world.
• Evaluate and present the application of ideas to practical contexts in a critical fashion.

Syllabus

• Information and Knowledge – A strategic perspective.
• Elucidating data, information, and knowledge.
• Gearing information and knowledge for competitive advantage.
• Technology for learning systems
• The knowledge management designs
• Information for performance management.
• Knowledge, a networking asset for innovation
• Information technology for the era of discontinuous change.
• Information strategy and processes for diversity.
• Measuring knowledge management outputs.

Resources

• Course Materials provided by IPE.
• Ashok Jashapara, Knowledge Management, An Integrated Approach, 2009, FT Prentice Hall
• Amrit Tiwana, The Knowledge Management Toolkit, 4th Edition, 2008, FT Prentice Hall
• Online resources on OCTAL Portal
• Online data bases from IPE’s E Library