[AISWorld] CFP HICSS45 Minitrack, KM in a Changing Society
MurphJen at aol.com
MurphJen at aol.com
Tue May 17 03:26:34 EDT 2011
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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