David Gurteen with links and ideas about Rewarding and recognizing knowledge sharing (bold is mine)
This is an interesting article on [Rewards and Recognition in Knowledge Management] from the AQPC. [...]
Speaking personally I am very much against extrinsic motivation to reward or encourage knowledge sharing. Its like saying ‘this is not really part of your job’ or worse ‘this is a distasteful part of your job’ and so we are we going to reward you separately to do it.
This is totally the wrong message to be giving and can only undermine knowledge sharing in the long term. Knowledge sharing is a fundamental and integral part of every knowledge workers job – not so different to breathing! Why the hell should you single out the key essence of a knowledge workers job – to mind what they are really getting paid for and reward them separately for it. It is just plain crazy.
Fully agree. But organisations are not full of natural knowledge workers, so it would be interesting to look how someone becomes knowledge worker: what education, culture, experiences are shaping “knowledge worker behavior”.
Later in the day Sunday: Serendipity! Even [more] on this subject in an item on ‘Knowledge sharing and leadership’ in Jim McGee’s blog. I love the [article] by Alfie Cohn – if you have any lingering doubts about the stupidity of rewarding knowledge sharing then read this article!
Also a number of other good links here on the subject e.g. the work of Hazel Hall. I have an article on Knowledge Sharing that is taking a long time in gestation but I must remember to come back here when I find time again to work on it!
Synchronicity :) I met Hazel at KMSS and I hope that we can get in touch.
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