KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
- Course
- BUSN410 - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
- Department
- Business Administration - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 6
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
This course aims at underlying the importance of knowledge and its processes in organizations. It focuses on the processes of knowledge such as creating, sharing, structuring, using and auditing in the context of knowledge management life cycle (KMLC). Furthermore, the course examines two type/dimensions of knowledge, tacit and explicit knowledge. Hierarchy of knowledge is also the key concept of knowledge management course which includes physical process, data, information, and knowledge and wisdom concepts. Knowledge management discipline, knowledge management applications and knowledge mapping techniques will be explained at this course during the Semester. Some of the additional theories such as resource based view of the organization theory, resource dependency theory, intellectual capital theory will directly be explained.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction and Course Overview |
| Week 2 | The knowing process (How do we know what we knew) (Cognitive perspectives) |
| Week 3 | The hierarchy of knowledge (Physical process, Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom) |
| Week 4 | The theory of “knowledge management” and related small range theories (History and roots) |
| Week 5 | The theory of “knowledge management” and related small range theories (History and roots\cont.) |
| Week 6 | The “knowledge management” definition and related discipline (Interdisciplinary perspectives and KM paradigms) |
| Week 7 | Knowledge Management in Organizations (Applications) (Tools and Techniques) |
| Week 8 | Final Examination |
| Week 9 | - |
| Week 10 | - |
| Week 11 | - |
| Week 12 | - |
| Week 13 | - |
| Week 14 | - |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Sağsan, M. (2006, July). A new life cycle model for processing of knowledge management. In 2nd International Congress of Business, Management and Economics (pp. 15-18).
- 02 Sagsan, M. (2009). Knowledge management discipline: Test for an undergraduate program in Turkey. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 7(5), pp627-636.
- 03 Sağsan, M., Medeni, İ. T., & Medeni, T. D. (2016). Knowledge management paradigms: implementation through individual fuzzy-based education. Procedia Computer Science, 102, 259-266.
Learning Outcomes
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Program Outcomes
- P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
- P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
- P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
- P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
- P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
- P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
- P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
- P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
- P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
- P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
- P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
- P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.
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