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Supporting Personal Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development and Decent Work

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Interventions in Career Design and Education

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Abstract

The concept of sustainable development entails viewing social, economic and environmental issues as equally important. Among social issues attention is given to education, which in our times is supposed to provide valuable and relevant knowledge. Besides the concept of knowledge society, this is another argument for the significance of knowledge in the contemporary world. This is particularly recognized in the idea of personal knowledge management, which appreciates employees’ individual knowledge resources and makes them a key component of the organization’s intellectual capital, thereby strengthening the employees’ position and enhancing their prospects of decent treatment at the workplace. At the same time, with the concept of personal knowledge management effectively implemented, responsibility for knowledge is, even more than before, transferred onto employees themselves, who find themselves obligated to develop it further. Delegating responsibility onto employees seems to be a key factor in the success and, in a long-term perspective, effectiveness of the entire process. Consequently, it is urgent to support employees in managing their own knowledge to prevent them from feeling left to their own devices and afford them an opportunity to develop necessary skills in this respect. Coaching sessions seem to be good candidates for such supporting interventions.

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    Guy Standing suggests that such work should be described as dignified rather than decent (Standing, 2002, p. 263)

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    The future of work: A journey to 2022. http://www.pwc.ie/publications/2014/the-future-of-work-a journey-to-2022.pdf [Retrieved 10 October, 2017].

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  1. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Universités, Paris, France

    Valérie Cohen-Scali

  2. University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Jacques Pouyaud

  3. University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland

    Marek Podgórny

  4. University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland

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Podgórny, M. (2018). Supporting Personal Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development and Decent Work. In: Cohen-Scali, V., et al. Interventions in Career Design and Education . Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91968-3_13

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