from Isn’t membership-based employment necessary to accumulate knowledge and social relationships? The form of information distribution has a significant impact on the structure of the organization.
nishio In order to store knowledge capital and social-relationship capital in a company, doesn’t it inevitably have to be membership-based employment rather than job-based?
kawahiii I personally think information distribution style is important.
In old-style organizations, information is closely tied to people, and business necessity compels them to engage with people. There is a necessity of gift exchange of information, and SOC is formed. The organization also has a high affinity with the membership type. Gemeinschaft.
On the other hand, in new organizations where explicit knowledge (knowledge management terminology) is in place, information is not closely tied to humans, and the kicker for gift exchange that maintains human relationships because information can be smoothly obtained from text is This is a high affinity for the job type. This is highly compatible with the job type. Gesellschaft.
Therefore, I wonder if the stockpiling of knowledge capital will be membership-based if it is close to tacit knowledge, and if it is close to formal knowledge, then the job type will predominate.
(As an aside, I think there may be a partial similar story to Drucker’s finding a solution to community functioning in the Japanese corporate model in a post-capitalist society…)
nishio I think the perspective of information distribution format is very interesting. I wonder if the formalization of knowledge progresses gradually as we do the same thing over and over again, and conversely, in “situations where one unknown thing after another occurs” knowledge is stored within each individual in the form of unverbalized experience. In other words, it is affected by the speed of change in the world.
nishio If verbalization is the bottleneck, then “the inventory of what has not yet been verbalized” will keep piling up.
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