The relationship between personal knowledge management and individual work performance: the moderating effect of self-perceived employability

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dc.contributor.authorRakotoarison, Lova Miarantsoa
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-05T14:21:54Z
dc.date.available2019-04-05T14:21:54Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Masters of Commerce in Management, 2018en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study sought to contribute to a further convergence between three topical research areas: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Individual Work Performance (IWP) and SelfPerceived Employability (SPE). Specifically, this study investigated the moderating effect of SPE on the relationship between PKM and IWP. PKM is an interdisciplinary concept, connected with management science, information science; information technology and other disciplines. The shift from the industrial economy to the knowledge economy has contributed to the surfacing of the knowledge-based view of the organisations and the emergence of the concept of knowledge workers or “people who think for a living” (Davenport, 2005). Knowledge workers are individuals who possess or seek to develop unique cognitive competencies and skills built upon effective PKM. While it has been acknowledged in the literature that PKM encompasses a competency aspect on the one hand and a technological perspective on the other hand, the overall reflection conducted in this study claimed to be skills/competencies centric. In that regard, a competency model developed by Kirby (2005, 2008) comprising of four-fold dimensions was used in this study to measure PKM. These four dimensions include analytical competencies (ANL), social competencies (SOC), information competencies (INF) and learning competencies (LRN). The construct of IWP relates to the individual behaviours or actions displayed by knowledge workers which are relevant to the goals of the organisation. This implies that IWP focuses on behaviours or actions of workers rather than the results of these actions. In addition, these behaviours should be under the control of the individual, thus excluding behaviours that are constrained by the environment. IWP was measured using the three components relevant to the IWP namely task performance (TSK), contextual performance (CON) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Employability concerns the extent to which people possess the skills and other attributes to find and stay in the kind of work they want. Such individuals are assumed to display a greater propensity to IWP. SPE is relating to a self-assessment of the employees as to how the organisation they are working for value them as individuals. Most importantly, SPE is associated with v individuals’ self-perception of their merit based more on their personal competencies than features of their occupation. Through a review of relevant literature this study discussed how PKM impacts IWP, and how SPE can potentially impact that relationship. This study used a sample of working professional students studying at Wits Plus (the University of the Witwatersrand’s centre for part-time studies), Wits Business School and Wits School of Governance and will perform Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and hierarchical regression for data analysis.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianXL2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (246 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationRakotoarison, Lova Miarantsoa (2018) The relationship between personal knowledge management and individual work performance: the moderating effect of self-perceived employability, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/26714>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26714
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshPersonal information management
dc.subject.lcshKnowledge management
dc.subject.lcshEmployee selection
dc.titleThe relationship between personal knowledge management and individual work performance: the moderating effect of self-perceived employabilityen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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