Knowledge, Management, and Learning when the context of the Orginization is Planetary

To manage the activities of others through application of communication technologies world-wide merits reconsideration of what well established concepts, namely management and learning, mean in the context of trans-national, inter-continental human organizations. A particular form of knowledge to manage and guide human organizations is becoming increasingly important due to operational complexities associated with global outreach. This form is called open knowledge. Team oriented approaches characteristically systemic, holistic, socioculturally sensitive, interdependent, chameleon-like, and expertise-wise diverse in know-how are more important than ever, while individuals must be allowed greater freedom to operate in the broadened context. Open knowledge may emerge when particular conditions exist. Expanding one’s conception of the learning organization helps one to comprehend as well as participate in global human activity systems. Appearance of and application of open knowledge brings consequential modifications of familiar and established local-regional managerial practices.

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