Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage or Managing Sport and Risk Management Strategies

Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management

Author: Angelo DeNisi

This eighteenth volume in the Jossey-Bass Organizational Frontiers Series provides an in-depth examination of how I/O psychologists can help find, recruit, and manage knowledge. The authors explain the nature of different types of knowledge, how knowledge-based competition is affecting organizations, and how these ideas relate to innovation and learning in organizations. They describe the strategies and organizational structures and designs that facilitate the acquisition and development of knowledge. And they discuss how continuous knowledge acquisition and innovation is promoted among individuals and teams and how to foster the creation of new knowledge. In addition, they explain how to assess the climate and culture for organizational learning, measure and monitor knowledge resources at the organizational level, and more.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Contributors
1	The Knowledge-Based Approach to Sustainable Competitive Advantage	3
2	Alternative Strategies for Acquiring Knowledge	37
3	Organizing for Knowledge-Based Competitiveness: About Pipelines and Rivers	64
4	Designing Work for Knowledge-Based Competition	94
5	Managing the Human Resource Architecture for Knowledge-Based Competition	127
6	Hiring for Knowledge-Based Competition	155
7	Contracting Talent for Knowledge-Based Competition	178
8	Knowledge Management: Developing Intellectual and Social Capital	209
9	Stimulating and Supporting Creativity in Organizations	243
10	Reward Systems in Knowledge-Based Organizations	274
11	Retaining Knowledge by Retaining Technical Professionals: Implications of the Unfolding Turnover Model and the Job Embeddedness Construct	303
12	Assessing the Culture and Climate for Organizational Learning	333
13	Strategic Knowledge Measurement and Management	360
14	Managing Human Resources for Knowledge-Based Competition: New Research Directions	399
	Name Index	429
	Subject Index	443

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Managing Sport and Risk Management Strategies

Author: Herb Appenzeller

The hallmarks of a successful athletics program are many. It takes more than talent on the field or among the coaching staff to offer solid athletics and sports programs. An effective sports program depends on faculty management and recruitment, facilities management, organization and administration of athletics contests, crowd control, equipment procurement and care, public relations, contract negotiation, budgeting and finance, transportation coordination, drug education and policy enforcement, communication, fund-raising, and sports marketing - to name a few. Over and above all the daily responsibilities for students, faculty, and facilities is risk management. In today's litigious world, safety consciousness and concern is not enough. The athletics director must initiate an active program of risk and liability management that is well grounded in providing safe equipment and areas for players as well as safe spectator areas. Safety measures and efforts must be demanded of everyone involved in the sports program. Effective documentation must be maintained. A large proportion of this book is dedicated to risk management strategies in an effort to help athletics directors provide the safest possible facilities and to aid in record keeping. The appendixes offer a number of forms and checklists that can be used effectively in risk management initiatives.