Leadership, Organization Culture Management, and Knowledge Management

This chapter examines the topics of leadership and organizational culture, and how they can impact on knowledge management initiatives. It starts by examining the topic of organizational culture and its relationship to knowledge management. Then it considers the impact leadership can have on knowledge processes. The relationships between organizational culture and knowledge management processes are discussed. The chapter also presents the different perspectives on the debate regarding the extent to which knowledge-based cultures can be created within organizations. The topic of leadership is also divided into two sections, with the first giving a brief overview of the way in which the conceptualization of leadership has evolved over time; and the second section looking more narrowly at the relationship between leadership and knowledge management activities.