RESEARCH

Research Agenda

my research primarily revolves around these four topics. My interest in these topics has grown out of my life experience.

Regarding leadership and knowledge creation, they have come to my attention when I worked as a OD consultant. It was a very important job for us to create new knowledge as we share/accumulate each other’s idea, expertise, and knowledge to produce clients-satisfying end products such as training programs or any interventions. Moreover, in so many cases, when we interview clients’ organizations, people talk about their leadership problems such as Incapability, ineffectiveness, unethical behaviors. Several manuscripts I published covers relevant topics, including my dissertation.

My interest in informal learning in the T&D is rooted in my father’s business. He is the CEO of SMEs in construction industry. As I am a person who studies HRD, he was my easiest, closest research target. I asked him ‘how do you run your company?’, ‘How your employees learn in your company?’ My father said “we talk.” That was the moment I felt the power of informal learning in organization.

These themes are interconnected and are converged into a research theme “how to effectively share tacit knowledge in organization?”

Each individual’s tacit knowledge is a primary resource for organizational knowledge, and tacit knowledge is shared and exchanged in an informal way such as Social interaction, collaboration.. Leader’s role is prominent in that they can establish atmosphere where knowledge is continuously created, captured, and disseminated. Creating and sharing tacit knowledge are essentially social activities. (you don’t know how much you know or you don’t know you know)…