Knowledge Management: Trends, Issues, and Challenges

This report discusses the trends, issues, and challenges in managing, transferring, and modeling knowledge in organizations. It reviews the article titled “A systematic review of knowledge management and knowledge sharing: Trends, issues, and challenges” written by Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq and Sadia Anwar. The report also highlights the factors that hinder the efficiency of Australian organizations in managing knowledge.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Knowledge management, knowledge sharing and knowledge modeling in the organization.........2
Content.........................................................................................................................................2
Method.........................................................................................................................................3
Findings........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................5
Relevancy.....................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Knowledge management is the procedure of creation, distribution and management of the
knowledge and data of the corporation. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach, which helps in
accomplishing the objective of the organization by using the knowledge in efficient manner.
However, many of the large organization, public association as well as non-profit organizations
have funds and resources which are committed to the efforts of internal Knowledge management
(Dalkir, 2017).
In this report, the article titled “A systematic review of knowledge management and knowledge
sharing: Trends, issues, and challenges” written by Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq and Sadia Anwar.,
2016 is selected. The purpose of the report is to find the various developments, challenges faced
in managing the knowledge, sharing of knowledge as well as modeling of knowledge in the
organization. In this report the factors which hinders the managing and transferring of knowledge
in the organization is also discussed. The trends and challenges has been discussed by using the
secondary approach that is by reviewing the article selected and to support the above discussion
other sources is also taken into consideration.
Knowledge management, knowledge sharing and knowledge modeling
in the organization
Content
According to Asrar-ul-Haq and Anwar managing the knowledge is the lifeblood of every
corporation, it is considered significant to sustain in the competitive environment. However,
Doante & Pablo says that to earn higher revenue and to gain the competitive advantage the
organization is dependent on the knowledge because it is the crucial and critical factor of
organization (Donate & Pablo, 2015). It is important for the organization because efficient
management of knowledge brings the positivity in the organization and leads a positive result
that leads success of the organization. However, it is difficult to manage, shared as well as
modeling of the knowledge in easy manner because knowledge is the strategic aspect of the
organization because it is shared across the subsidiaries borders to take the competitive
advantage. Various IT organizations adopt several strategies to managing as well as transferring

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the knowledge resource in effective manner; the strategies include codification, network as well
as dissemination etc.
The aim of the report is to find the trends, issues which influence the modeling and management
of the knowledge. The researcher also conducted this study to know the factors as well as other
aspects which impact in the management of the knowledge. However, these three aspects that is
knowledge management, knowledge sharing and knowledge modeling are inter related to each
other (Omotayo, 2015). In this study the factors and aspects which in promoting the management
of knowledge are also discussed by the researcher (Asrar-ul-Haq & Anwar, 2016). However, the
study demonstrates the understanding about the implications of the knowledge which is helpful
and supportive to the manager of the organization. The case is related to the Australia, it is
important of the organization to manage, share and modeling of the knowledge in effective
manner because to delivering the across borders. However, various issues have to be determined
which hinder the efficiency of the Australian organizations. The researcher conducted the study
to provide the support to the managers of the organization.
Method
The research has been conducted by taking secondary approach that is by reviewing the various
articles about the transferring, managing as well as modeling of knowledge in the different
companies over the six years in the past. The study utilize the meta-review to achieve the
objective, the reason for adopting this approach is that the approach of meta-analytical is
supports the nomothetic knowledge and helps in providing the observation which are generalized
as well as the principles and approaches which is based on the huge studies which carry out by
using the several methods and metrics to measure the common size of the effect (Asrar-ul-Haq
& Anwar, 2016). The researcher selects the peer review journal to explore and investigate the
specific and relevant publications; the journal name which is utilized by the researcher is Journal
of knowledge management (Asrar-ul-Haq & Anwar, 2016). The articles provide the qualitative
in-depth information about the knowledge; the researcher also selects the key words related to
the topic which are sharing of knowledge, management of knowledge and knowledge modeling.
These key words are selected to know the complete data about the issues, trends and factors
which promotes the knowledge management.

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The review which is done by the researcher includes various stages that is in the first stage the
researcher read all the articles thoroughly and main focused on the challenges lies in managing
the knowledge in different organizations. However, several articles describe with the different
perspective and do not matched with the subject of the relevant article. Researcher only includes
and examined those articles those publishing year lies in the year of 2010-2015, however only 64
articles are relevant and met the criteria of the study (Asrar-ul-Haq & Anwar, 2016).
Findings
From the study the researcher finds that there are different factors which influence the efficiency
of knowledge management, knowledge sharing and knowledge modeling in different year.
However, in the year 2010 the trust is considered the major factor. The trust issues are the main
concern through which the manager of the organizations does not share and transfer the
knowledge to the employees in the organization. The published article in 2011 demonstrate that
trust is not very considerable but the environment of team effects the behavior of knowledge
sharing and managing as well as using the system through which knowledge is transferred
effectively. The other 2012 articles revealed that mutual trust and diverse culture influence the
organization in managing knowledge. However, the trust and cultural values are interrelated to
each other because cultural values affect the interpersonal relations and trust among the
employees (Inkinen, 2016). The researcher finds that knowledge is efficiently share, modeled
and manage in the similar headquarter subsidiary nut inefficient in the other subsidiaries because
of cultural diversity.
The study finding also demonstrate the factors which promote the knowledge management,
knowledge transferring as well as knowledge modeling in the organization which includes
system of reward, motivation among the employees of the organization and the social relations.
However, these are the significant variables in promoting the knowledge in different
organizations because when the person is not motivated and no system of rewarding the
individual does not reveal and transfer the knowledge to other (Todorović et al., 2015). The
employees will also not encourage utilizing the knowledge model for the development of the
organization. The other issues and challenges include structure of the organization; it is
significant in influencing the knowledge transferring because it leads hindering the knowledge.
However, in the structure of the organization various factors involved which are openness to

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change, communication and the willingness and capability of the individual (Asrar-ul-Haq &
Anwar, 2016). The study also revealed key factor which include commitment of the
organization, lack of technology and leadership style. However these key factors are mostly
affects the organization in the year 2014. The problems includes that the authors finds difficulty
in understanding the exact factors which affects the knowledge management in the organization
because of difference in the factors in different years. The researcher also highlighted the issue of
relevancy of the data collection because only one method is used and no opinion is taken from
the employees and managers of the organization.
Conclusion
From the study the researcher reviewed that secondary approach provides the data on the subject
related to the sharing and managing of knowledge in the organizational background. However
efficient management of knowledge attracts many scholars as well as practitioners and managers
across several control and discipline. The researcher, finds that present study does not focuses on
the practices of knowledge transferring in the urban areas. However, the knowledge sharing,
managing is considered the significant factor for conducting the future research (Fidel et al.,
2015). The study also shows that knowledge management helps the organization in gaining the
competitive advantage, so this organization should promote the reward system, motivation and
social relations among the employees.
Relevancy
The study is relevant because it provide the information about the management of knowledge
which also helps in motivating the persona and using the system through which the person can
gain, share, transfer knowledge in effective manner. The study is also important because of
providing the information about the factors which considered challenge, so that the person can
know and manage the social relations; make use of effective technology, committed towards the
subject areas. However, through this person gets the information about the managing factors and
can also leads in the development of person by making the optimum use of the knowledge
(Capilla et al., 2016).

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Conclusion
From the above it is conclude that Knowledge management is the procedure of making,
allocating, utilizing as well as administrating the knowledge and information of the company. It
is significant because it leads in accomplishing the objective of the company. In this report
article is selected about the knowledge management and sharing, with the aim of finding the
trends and challenges in managing, transferring as well as modeling of the knowledge. In this
secondary method is used for collecting data and finds that there are various issues in the
management of knowledge which include organizational structure, leadership style, motivation
and reward system.

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Omotayo, F.O., 2015. "Knowledge Management as an important tool in Organisational
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