Discussion: Organizational Contingencies and Knowledge Management

This discussion post explores organizational contingencies and their impact on knowledge management within organizations. It delves into four key issues: organizational justice, knowledge hoarding, plagiarism, and knowledge ownership. The analysis includes a discussion of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice, and how they influence employee performance. The post examines knowledge hoarding as a threat to organizational knowledge continuity and productivity. It then addresses plagiarism as a barrier to knowledge management, highlighting the role of detection tools. Further, the post discusses the manipulation and misappropriation of knowledge and the importance of intellectual property rights. Finally, it discusses the importance of knowledge ownership. The post utilizes examples of real-world companies, such as IBM and TCS, to illustrate these concepts and concludes with the importance of strategic choices in overcoming market challenges. This assignment provides valuable insights into the complexities of knowledge management and its relationship with organizational performance.