[AISWorld] CFP HICSS45 Minitrack, KM in a Changing Society

[MurphJen at aol.com]

Hawaii International Conference on System  Sciences – 45 
January 4-7, 2012 
The Grand Wailea  Maui, Hawaii 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_45/apahome45.htm 
Track: Knowledge Systems  
Minitrack: KM in a Changing Society: Using Knowledge to  Impact Societies 
Knowledge management (KM) is beginning to have an impact  on society. For 
example, we may actually see KM leading to less knowledge worker  offshore 
outsourcing (although offshore sourcing for knowledge needs may  increase) as 
it becomes difficult for organizations to maintain two or more  classes of 
knowledge workers and wages and position will tend to equalize over  national 
boundaries. Quality of life concerns will guide knowledge workers to  where 
they want to live and work and this will also support equalization of  
living standards and critical infrastructure. This will be disruptive to the  
organization as traditional management and governance structures will be  
stressed to handle distributed knowledge in a distributed organization. Workers  
may rethink traditional careers as they may work in organizations where 
they  never physically meet their boss or colleagues and will be more loyal to 
local  organizations and local social structures. This will likely increase 
transience,  a trend weÕre observing now in many organizations, and 
increased transience will  likely lead to increased intellectual property and 
knowledge ownership issues.   
Similarly, societal changes have an impact on KM. If  hiring practices 
change as organizations hire and retain staff based on the  knowledge they 
possess, this may actually lead to a higher valuation of older,  experienced 
workers. This will tend to force knowledge workers into being  lifelong learners 
if they are not already. Unfortunately, with the Baby Boomers  expected to 
retire now and in the near future, organizations are faced with the  
problems of retaining the knowledge and expertise of this population. With  
Generation X and Y individuals prototypically having 'spiral' or 'transitory'  
career paths, this also impacts KM practices. With reduced birthrates in the  
developed countries, the increased immigration impacts KM in terms of  
under-utilization or undervaluing the immigrant population's knowledge. The  
increased rate of use of contingent (or non-standard) workers (e.g., contract  
employees, temporary employees, seasonal or non-permanent employees) also  
impacts the type of knowledge entering the organization and KM  practices. 
This minitrack seeks papers that investigate these  impacts and explore how 
organizations are using KM to help meet these impacts on  society and how 
these societal trends impact organizations. 
Possible topics include: 
    *   Using KM to increase  citizen participation in government and 
society;  
    *   Using KM to create  citizen driven change in society or government; 
 
    *   Using knowledge to  change societies;  
    *   Creating society  wide Knowledge Systems;  
    *   Improving living  standards through KM and knowledge us;  
    *   Knowledge loss risk  management;  
    *   Impact of  immigration and cultural issues on KM initiatives ;  
    *   Using KM to mitigate  impacts of retirement and worker transience;  
    *   Measuring risk of  knowledge loss due to retiring or transient 
employees;   
    *   Developing knowledge  capture processes and technologies for 
retiring and transient workers;   
    *   KM issues with  retiring and transient workers and their impact on 
organizational governance  and management processes;  
    *   Developing KM  Systems to mitigate risks of retiring, transient, 
and immigrating workers; and   
    *   Valuation and knowledge  utilization processes for (potential or 
actual) immigrant knowledge  workers.
Important Deadlines:  
June 15, 2011 Submit full manuscripts for review. The  review is 
double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author  names. 
Aug 15, 2011 Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by  the Review 
System. (Make sure your server accepts the address.) At least one  author of each 
accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the  conference, 
including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel  guarantees. 
Sept 15, 2011 Accepted authors submit Final Paper. At  least one author of 
each paper should register by this date. This is the Early  Registration fee 
deadline. 
Oct 15, 2011 Papers without at least one registered  author will be deleted 
from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified by the  Conference 
Office. 
Minitrack Co-Chair: 
Alexandra Durcikova (Primary  Contact) 
The University of Arizona 
Email:  alex at eller.arizona.edu 
Murray E. Jennex 
San  Diego State  University 
Email: Murphjen at aol.com,  mjennex at mail.sdsu.edu


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