Human Systems Management - Volume 34, issue 3

Authors: Al-Qadhi, Yaser Hassan | Md Nor, Khalil | Ologbo, Andrew C. | Knight, Michael B.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Knowledge sharing has been described as a key aspect of knowledge management. Most previous studies have examined knowledge sharing among employees from the same nationality but studies on knowledge sharing among multi-nationalities employees is rare. This study investigated factors that influence knowledge sharing among employees of diverse nationality in a multinational setting. The survey method via the use of the questionnaire was employed to collect data from 189 employees working with a multinational organization in Saudi Arabia. The data was analysed using the structural equation modelling (smart PLS). The result indicated that trust and management support are significant factors that …influence knowledge sharing among employees of multi-nationality. This paper concludes that factors that affect knowledge sharing could differ in an organization with diversity of employees. Employees’ diverse culture, languages, beliefs, and experiences could affect the knowledge sharing process especially in a multi-nationalities organization. The implications of the findings were discussed. Show more

Keywords: Knowledge sharing, knowledge management, trust, multi-nationalities, Saudi Arabia

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150844

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 149-165, 2015

Authors: Pedyash, Denis | Shi, Chunsheng | Belov, Alexey V.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The paper illustrates adoption of innovation, Competitive Intelligence and Business Intelligence in unit of organizational structure. In practice, occurs a problem of administration, such as position allocation, assignment to positions, as well as arises a question: which of researched organizational structure unit is responsible for adaptation of decision making in cross-cultural environment. In the period of 2012–2014 the authors had been researching problems and experience of organization structure in Russian industrial enterprises based in China. The paper helps to understand, which of the positions (in this article we are talking about positions, related to innovation decision making, BI and CI) …in international corporations are optimal for Canadian applicants, and which position are more suitable for Chinese employees. For more detailed review, it was decided to compare Canadian and Russian industrial enterprises, carrying on economical and business activity in China. Show more

Keywords: Canadian enterprises based in China, innovation, business intelligence, competitive inteligence, Liaison team

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150846

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 167-177, 2015

Authors: Burns, Tom R. | Machado, Nora | Corte, Ugo

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Creativity is a universal activity, essential in an evolutionary perspective, to adaptation and sustainability. This first part of a three part article on the sociology of creativity has three purposes: (1) to develop the argument that key factors in creative activity are socially based and developed; hence, sociology can contribute significantly to understanding and explaining human creativity; (2) to present a sociological systems approach which enables us to link in a systematic and coherent way the disparate social factors and mechanisms that are involved in creative activity and to describe and explain creativity; and (3) to illustrate a sociological systems …theory’s conceptualization of multiple interrelated institutional, cultural, and interaction factors and their role in creativity and innovative development in diverse empirical instances. The article introduces and applies a model stressing the social embeddedness of innovative agents and entrepreneurs, either as individuals or groups, as they manipulate symbols, rules, technologies, and materials that are socially derived and developed. Their motivation for doing what they do derives in part from their social roles and positions, in part in response to the incentives and opportunities – many socially constructed – shaping their interaction situations and domains. Their capabilities including their social powers derive from the culturally and institutional frameworks in which they are embedded. In carrying out their actions, agents mobilize resources including technologies through the institutions and networks in which they participate. Following this theoretical part, Parts II and III focus on the concrete conditions and mechanisms characteristic of the “context of innovation” and the “context of receptivity and institutionalization”, respectively. Show more

Keywords: Creativity, innovative development, system theories, sociology, psychology, agency, rule regime, creativity production function, context of creativity, context of receptivity and selectivity

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150839

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 179-199, 2015

Authors: Liang, Thow Yick

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Recognizing the inherent strengths and weaknesses of human agents and organizations, as well as changing characteristics and behavior of the interacting agents is the key fundamental to better adaptation, leadership, governance, resilience and sustainability. In all human organizations, the agents are human beings each embedded with an intrinsic intense intelligence source that could easily transform their behavioral schemata. Thus, contradictory to the Newtonian/design paradigm, the group/organizational dynamic of human agents is complex, nonlinear, constantly/continuously changing, and can be unpredictable. In addition, complexity in the human world can be relativistic. Consequently, human agent/organization may perceive certain spaces of complexity as spaces …of relativistic order – relativistic complexity. In particular, due the presence of the intense mental dimension in humanity – complexity is in the mind of the beholder . In human existence, leadership and governance are spontaneously emerging key requirements – a primary trait for collective survival. Currently, with more knowledge-intensive and participative new agents (self-powered intrinsic leadership) who possess modified beliefs, values, norms, and expectations that are dissimilar from the older generations, governance and leadership need deeper analysis and redefinition. Traditional governance systems in all categories of organization are manifesting their constraint, vulnerability, and incompetency, in particular, incoherency due to new values and cultural pressure, and their associated self-organizing networks – especially informal networks that demand change, a more commonly observed worldwide phenomenon. In this respect, special attend has to be focus on the highly nonlinear relational parameter is beneficial. This study adopts the intelligence mindset that concurrently focuses on intelligence/consciousness-centricity, complexity-centricity, and network-centricity as the new strategic path towards better adaptive governance and the new leadership. It concentrates on the self-powered agents that are also intrinsic leaders/actors. The new intelligence leadership focal point include nurturing intense collective intelligence (more actors), the critical ability of self-organizing communications, immersion of leadership nodes in networks/clusters (including e-governance), increasing coherency of complex networks (interdependency of network of networks, network management), exploiting selected spaces of complexity (complexity management), and intelligence-driven self-transcending constructions that better facilitates emergence through ‘multi-lateral’ dynamics (minimizing ‘direct’ governance). This intelligence governance strategy emphasizes that mass lateral collectivity rather than selective enforced hierarchical empowerment is the more effective approach in the present contact. Fundamentally, optimizing the ‘everybody is in charge ’ phenomenon frequently is a more viable option. Show more

Keywords: Newtonian mindset design paradigm, complexity mindset, intelligence mindset, intelligence paradigm, intelligence/consciousness management, intelligence-intelligence linkage, mindfulness, network management, orgmindfulness, mindful culture, complexity management, complexity-intelligence linkage, sensitive dependence of initial conditions, interdependency, space-time compression, unpredictable, basin of attraction, strange attractor, emergence, relativistic complexity, space of relativistic order, self-centric, stability-centric, autopoiesis, self-organizing communications, self-organization, self-transcending constructions, self-powered human agents, intrinsic leadership, intelligent person, deliberate strategy, emergent strategy, deliberate-emergent auto-switch, complex network, networks of networks, small world network, adaptive capacity, governance capacity, ‘multi-lateral’ dynamic, coherency, synergetic, self-powered self-organizing governance, intelligence governance strategy, intelligence leadership, and intelligent organization theory

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150841

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 201-223, 2015

Authors: Chen, Kou-Huang | Chang, William Li | Chih, I-Liang | Liao, Chin-Nung

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Feng-Shui has greatly impacted Chinese society andoften influences business decisions. This paper develops a decision making framework for Chinese businesses that follows the principles of Feng-Shui . This paper contributes to the academic literature by introducing a conceptual decision making model that includes a worldview, a strategy for risk avoidance and considering the environment impact, and a way to enhance the understanding of the impacts of Feng-Shui theory on Chinese business operations.

Keywords: Feng-Shui theory, Chinese business, decision maker, decision making

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150840

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 225-232, 2015

Authors: Warner, Malcolm

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150842

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 233-233, 2015

Authors: Warner, Malcolm

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-150845

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 235-235, 2015