Using as a starting point Shakespeare’s quotation, to be or not be, this paper aims to underline if higher education knowledge authors within distributed learning environments assume an ethical and cultural sensitivity. This research question reflects the existing ethical and social dilemmas that e-learning evolution imposes to knowledge “creators” (coordinators and tutors); although, the straightforward answer...
According to the Free Dictionary (2010), “a mosaic is a picture or decorative design made by setting small coloured pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface, or a composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial or photographs”. Using the mosaic metaphor is the authors’ intention to discuss four levels of arguing: 1. personal ethical decision making in learning organizations; 2. construct the mosaic for...
The development of educational technologies is enhancing a distinctive feature of learning environments: the learner’s personalized environment. However, the current literature in e-learning seems to neglect an important discussion: will individuals (learners and lecturers) and organizations face an enhancement concerning ethical dilemmas due to this evolution? To promote this discussion, this paper builds on a...
The aim of this paper is to grasp the ethical dilemmas that arise into organizational knowledge and the importance of trust for diminishing these dilemmas. Therefore, it focuses three key issues: knowledge management (concept; and, schools of thought); knowledge flowing models versus ethics (mental models; the Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization (SECI) model; and, Fiske’s relational mod...
This paper aims to understand how the interaction between knowledge management, organizational culture and ethics occur, focusing on the potential tensions between personal and collective knowledge in learning organizations. These tensions are reflected upon ethical and social dilemmas which are often neglected by managers and produce unexpected impacts into the organizational strategy. Therefore, this contribu...
This contribution is a result of an ongoing PhD research project, which intends to approach personal versus organizational ethical issues and social dilemmas in organizational knowledge management. Therefore, the key purpose is to illustrate the conceptual frameworks that explain these trends, as well as to expose the empirical results concerning data collection first stage (pre-tests and pilot studies). For th...
The intent of this manuscript is to emphasize if distributed knowledge creation within higher education encompasses an ethical and cultural sensitivity. This research problem resumes the ethical and social dilemmas that e-learning evolution imposes to knowledge “creators”. For that, under enquiry will be empirical examples through Silva’s framework, namely the knowledge/content management layer. Therefore, this...
The evolution of educational technologies engages dissimilar pedagogical strategies; however, the existent work in e-learning seems to neglect hitherto an important discussion: what is knowledge, and what is content in the different pedagogical approaches? To promote such discussion e-learning definition and featured technologies will be under debate given their influence over the pedagogical choice. Afterwards...
In a world business context characterized by the central role that ICT plays, the need to analyze its ethical and moral dilemmas is crucial. At the same time, the exponential growth of business ethics also demonstrates the need for organizational transparency, as demonstrated by some well-known financial scandals. Currently society perceives ethics as “value added”; however, managers tend to dis...
O objectivo deste artigo é demonstrar as diferenças existentes entre learning organizations e as restantes taxonomias organizacionais, assim como, expor uma metodologia que permita avaliar o comportamento ético das learning organizations. Para tal, a estrutura do artigo irá ter em atenção quatro ítems analíticos: a evolução das taxonomias organizacionais; learning organizations e a sua dimensionalidade; modelos...
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