[AISWorld] Cfp: HICSS 44, KM in a Changing World

[MurphJen at aol.com]

Call for Papers  
HICSS-44 KM in a Changing Society: Using Knowledge to  Impact Societies 
minitrack  
2011 Conference - January 4-7, 2011. 
The Grand Hyatt Hyatt Spa & Resort, 
Koloa, Kauai, Hawai'i 
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 we’re 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 mini-track 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, but 
are not  limited to: 
    *   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.
HICSS is in the top 2 percent of all IEEE conferences  with regards to 
proceedings hits and paper  downloads. 
Paper submission deadline: June 15,  2010 
For detailed information please see   
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ 
Best wishes, 
Murray E.  Jennex and Dianne P.  Ford
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