Profile in Leadership: Adding Definition to Leadership as a Component of KMS Success

Author

Scovetta, Vincent ; Ellis, Timothy J.

Author_Institution

Long Island Univ., Brookville, NY, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

3625

Lastpage

3634

Abstract

This study investigated the constructs of Leader-ship Social Power (LSP) used by organizational leaders to influence Knowledge Management (KM) workers to bring about a successful KM implementation. Researchers have shown organizations wishing to secure, improve, or maintain KM success, should ensure their leaders: 1) are committed to KM, 2) encourage quality knowledge, and 3) promote knowledge use. The goals of this research focused on discovering how different factors of LSP impacted each of the three success factors. The current study was able to empirically demonstrate that LSP is a factor of that success and was able to predict Leadership Commitment to KM, Knowledge Content Quality, and Knowledge Use based upon predominate manner of Leadership Social Power used by the KM manager.

Keywords

knowledge management; organisational aspects; personnel; KM implementation; KM manager; KMS success; LSP; knowledge content quality; knowledge management workers; knowledge use; leadership commitment; leadership social power; organizational leaders; predominate manner; quality knowledge; success factors; Instruments; Knowledge acquisition; Lead; Organizations; Power measurement; Reliability; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Management Systems; Leadership; Social Power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2014.451

Filename

6759053