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| Artikel-Nr.: 858A-9783540854234 Herst.-Nr.: 9783540854234 EAN/GTIN: 9783540854234 |
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![](/p.gif) | 1.1 Introduction Each year corporations spend millions of dollars training and educating their - ployees. On average, these corporations spend approximately one thousand dollars 1 per employee each year. As businesses struggle to stay on the cutting-edge and to keep their employees educated and up-to-speed with professional trends as well as ever-changing information needs, it is easy to see why corporations are investing more time and money than ever in their efforts to support their employees' prof- sional development. During the Industrial Age, companies strove to control natural resources. The more resources they controlled, the greater their competitive edge in the mark- place. Senge (1993) refers to this kind of organization as resource-based. In the Information Age, companies must create, disseminate, and effectively use kno- edge within their organization in order to maintain their market share. Senge - scribes this kind of organization as knowledge-based. Given that knowledge-based organizations willcontinuetobeadrivingforcebehindtheeconomy, itisimperative that corporations support the knowledge and information needs of their workers. Weitere Informationen: ![](/p.gif) | ![](/p.gif) | Author: | Noriko Hara | Verlag: | Springer Berlin | Sprache: | eng |
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![](/p.gif) | Weitere Suchbegriffe: E-Learning, Lernen / E-Learning, Peer-to-Peer (EDV), Peer; cop; informal learning; offline; Online; social informatics, Peer, communities of practice, cop, informal learning, knowledge sharing, offline, online |
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