MITS5505 Report: Analyzing Leadership's Role in Knowledge Management

This report, prepared for the MITS5505 Knowledge Management course, analyzes the impact of leadership practices on organizational performance, focusing on an article by Mostafa Sayyadi (2019). It explores how transformational leadership affects knowledge management through strategies, policies, and technology, emphasizing the role of social capital theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm. The report examines the methodology, findings, and conclusions of the selected article, highlighting the importance of knowledge sharing, acquisition, and the development of social networks within organizations. The study concludes that transformational leadership promotes employee engagement and enhances organizational outcomes by fostering a dynamic environment and encouraging the sharing of knowledge, contributing to improved performance and innovation. The report is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

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“KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT”

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Introduction
Knowledge management is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge
and information of an organization 1. The purpose of the report is to describe the leadership
practices for knowledge management which influence the productivity of the organization.
Therefore, in this report “How effective leadership of knowledge management impacts
organizational performance” article is selected which is written by Mostafa Sayyadi in the year
2019. The authors describes that knowledge economy is dynamic which is highly related to the
practice of learning and provide the information regarding the manner in which individual either
learn, unlearn as well as relearn. Therefore, through this the knowledge of the manager’s gets
changed which is described as knowledge of the organization2.
Leadership play significant role in proper management of the knowledge in the corporation it is
lack of support from the top level managers, leaders reduces the efficiency of the organization
and can also reduce the capability to accomplish the project. It is also results that it can also
reduce the capability to sustain in the long run 3. Furthermore, the discussion is made on
describing the overall objective of the article, data collection method and findings which author
received from conducting the study regarding the influence of efficient leadership of knowledge
management on the overall outcomes of the organization.
Research Objective
Leadership is considered an important approach which adopts knowledge management aspect so
that overall objective of the organization will be achieved 4. Therefore, the author focuses on
finding the reason that “how leadership affects knowledge management so that performance of
the organization will be achieved”. The study mainly focuses on the transformational leadership
because the estimation revealed that transformational leadership play major role in achieving the
outcomes of the corporations. It not only influence knowledge management in direct manner but
also develops various strategies and implements policies so that it can contribute towards the
knowledge management so that organizational tasks will be performed in efficient manner
according to the needs and requirement with low wastage and cost 5.

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This topic is selected because estimated revealed that not much of the study is conducted to find
the leadership as the contribution towards the knowledge management so that activities will be
performed in effective manner2. Therefore, the present research put high emphasis on evaluating
the significance and importance of the managers which is more focused to provide adequate
results and through which the knowledge of the organizations is managed according to the
capability of the enterprises. The prior overlap the information of leadership and knowledge and
does not applied in organizations with adequacy which results that it does not provide
appropriate information about the subject matter2.
The current research fill the gap of prior study it is because it concentrate on finding the impact
of transformational leaders of organizations on the policies, advanced technology and knowledge
this is because these three play major role in achieving the objective of organizations.
Furthermore, the existing researchers does not include integrated model and structure for
providing information about the association of transformational with the knowledge management
and that of organizational performance2. Therefore, the current study develop conceptual
framework so that relationship of knowledge management through transformational leadership is
reveled with the productivity of the organization. The study adopts the principle of validity,
adequacy because it also include firm internal resources and provide knowledge regarding the
role of leaders through which the knowledge of corporations is managed and it contributes to the
profitability of the organization in efficient manner. The research selects transformational
leadership this is because these types of leaders efficiently manage and administrate changes at
business level2.
Methodology
The study adopted the secondary research that is by selecting the existing articles regarding the
subject matter, in this data is gathered by exploring the framework which contributes towards the
understanding the association among the knowledge management, organizational productivity as
well as transformational leadership2. The research focuses on understanding the internal
resources, framework and strategies which internal organization developed so that objective of
the company will be achieved. The article conducted the information so that organization can
contribute more towards the practice of management so that knowledge is managed in effective

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manner. The current article focuses on finding the information regarding the theoretical
background and their link with the transformational leadership. In this various theories are
develop so that validity will be managed in the article2. The social capital theory is adopted
which highlights the role of the social networks and describe the relationship among the
variables so that performance of the organization is enhanced. The information is gathered
regarding the social network of the leaders with the different variables which is used in
organizations for developing the policies and strategies, the leaders also manage the knowledge
in effective manner and his supports in improving the cohesiveness so that goals of the
organization will be achieved2.
The information is also gathered about the knowledge based view of the firm in which it provide
information that organizations conducted their operations in highly unique environment because
of using the resources and factors which can supports in expansion and determining the degree
by which organizational objectives is achieved. Therefore, further article involved in getting the
information regarding the relationship of the transformational leadership with the knowledge
management and also with the performance of the organization. It is because this describes that
leadership promotes in sharing practices and provide opportunities to other employees for
increasing the productivity and performance of organizations 6.
Findings
The findings of the articles revealed that effective change in the organization increase the
capability of organizations to adopt the change by the leaders and followers, it is because through
this the overall objective of the organization will be achieved2. Therefore, transformational
leaders through the social capital theory make use of human capital for executing the change in
organizations. This results in maintaining the link between self-interest and conflicts interest so
that value will be created and human resource management is done in effective manner 7. The
communities practice theory which is applied in the article revealed that there is association
among the transformational leaders and knowledge management which supports the organization
to enable social learning and to share the common objective of the organization which increasing
the interconnections of the leaders with the employees. It is also revealed that transformational

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leadership also supports in building practices and policies in which the knowledge and
information is shared among the other employees and which can encourage social networks.
The different also revealed that knowledge focuses on increasing social interactions and also
develop knowledge to increase relationship and association so that team work will be managed in
the organization2. The article also revealed that transformational leaders focus on increasing the
relationship and connection among the opportunities to the employees, human capital so that new
information will be developed and supports in providing various innovative ideas in
organizations2. Transformational leadership also support in facilitating and focusing on the
acquiring knowledge and this leads in improving the knowledge of the employees in the
organization 8. Furthermore, the investigation also finds that transformational leaders also
encourage and supports other members to share their knowledge and can affects in positive
manner. It is revealed that it encourage sharing practices and increasing the opportunities for
growing the employees of organizations.
Article conclusion
The article concludes that transformational leaders concentrate on developing the social capital
so that organizational development can be done. It supports the organization to communicate
through intellectual simulation and increase the knowledge by sharing it with the employees of
organizations2. It is also conclude that learning leaders respond to the dynamic environment in
highly efficient manner and increase commitment among the employees because of raising the
quality of the products and services so that customers satisfaction will be increased. The article
also concludes that there is direct association among the “transformational leaders, knowledge
management and performance of the organization”2. Furthermore, it is also analyzed that this
also supports organizations to develop efficient IT environment through efficient usage of
technology. This knowledge becomes relevant in my present study because through this I can
understand that knowledge sharing leads in improving the performance of other. Through this I
can also acquire more knowledge about the subject matter so that innovation and creativity is
maintained.

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Conclusion
From the above, it is conclude that transformational leadership leads in promoting the employees
by inspiring them to share the knowledge in organizations. Furthermore, it develops the pattern
by which the resources of the organizations are utilized in optimum manner and continuously
interact with the environment so that organizational objective will be achieved. It is also
conclude that transformational leaders concentrate highly on developing strategy through
knowledge sharing, knowledge acquisition so that it can contribute positively to organization and
provide effective results in the organization.

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