Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge

Cuddy, Colleen

doi:10.1108/bl.2002.17015bae.001

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“…The learning collaboratives will also involve policymakers, so as to promote sustainability. Learning collaboratives build on the concept of communities of practice, 56 involving people coming together to engage in a process of learning in a shared domain of interest. These will be held monthly using remote means of communication with the possibility of in-person meetings annually when travel is safe.…”

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A workplace organisational intervention to improve hospital nurses’ and physicians’ mental health: study protocol for the Magnet4Europe wait list cluster randomised controlled trial

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IntroductionThe increasing burden of mental distress reported by healthcare professionals is a matter of serious concern and there is a growing recognition of the role of the workplace in creating this problem. Magnet hospitals, a model shown to attract and retain staff in US research, creates positive work environments that aim to support the well-being of healthcare professionals.Methods and analysisMagnet4Europe is a cluster randomised controlled trial, with wait list controls, designed to evaluate the effects of organisational redesign, based on the Magnet model, on nurses’ and physicians’ well-being in general acute care hospitals, using a multicomponent implementation strategy. The study will be conducted in more than 60 general acute care hospitals in Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. The primary outcome is burnout among nurses and physicians, assessed in longitudinal surveys of nurses and physicians at participating hospitals. Additional data will be collected from them on perceived work environments, patient safety and patient quality of care and will be triangulated with data from medical records, including case mix-adjusted in-hospital mortality. The process of implementation will be evaluated using qualitative data from focus group and key informant interviews.Ethics and disseminationThis study was approved by the Ethics Committee Research UZ/KU Leuven, Belgium; additionally, ethics approval is obtained in all other participating countries either through a central or decentral authority. Findings will be disseminated at conferences, through peer-reviewed manuscripts and via social media.Trial registration numberISRCTN10196901.

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A workplace organisational intervention to improve hospital nurses’ and physicians’ mental health: study protocol for the Magnet4Europe wait list cluster randomised controlled trial

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“…The term practice relates to knowledge in action, and it opines the effect of individuals' performance on their everyday activities, as contrasting to further rigid rules and norms that describe how tasks must be accomplished. The phrase CoPs are used commonly about a certain category of communal organization possessing a specified goal (Cuddy, 2002). Therefore, a community is made up of people who are friendly to one another and who share or tie their behaviours to shared norms (Morgan, 2011).…”

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Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Management Tool in Ghana's Telecommunication Industry: A Systematic Review

Akosen

Asiedu²

2023

IJMKL

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Communities of Practice(s) (COPs) have become an important instrument for knowledge transfer in Ghana's telecom industry. It functions as a catalyst in enabling telecommunications' competitive advantage as the key industry on the development agendas of African countries. The study deals with the introduction, methodology, discussions, significance of the study, limitations of the study, future directions, and conclusions. The study used a systematic review technique to analyse the literature and discuss and present conclusions. The findings demonstrated that CoPs have strengthened a variety of essential abilities in the telecoms industry, allowing information from the company's technical and operational sectors to be diffused across the organization's broad skill set. The study suggests that the key aspects of a successful CoPs are ensuring that learning is a social force, knowledge is unified into the community's culture, standards, and language, learning and community affiliation are inseparable, knowledge and experience are indivisible, and authorization is essential to learning.

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“…An effective CoP is characterized by members who are motivated to deepen their understanding of the relevant subject matter and develop their skills and expertise (Bain et al, 2009; E. Wenger et al, 2002).…”

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“…Wenger et al, 2002). According to E. Wenger et al (2002), sharing resources is a critical component of a successful CoP, along with clearly defined roles and actions that align with the community’s shared goals.…”

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The Path to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Networks in Driving Entrepreneurial Learning and Education

Wasim,

Youssef,

Christodoulou

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Journal of Management Education

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This research aims to examine the extent to which the way entrepreneurs learn is reflected in entrepreneurship education, highlighting the existing gap between the literature on entrepreneurial learning and the practice of entrepreneurship education. To explore entrepreneurial learning in-depth, we adopted an interpretivist-constructivist approach that involves participant observation at coworking spaces and semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs. Data were subsequently analyzed using thematic analysis. Major findings indicate that social networks play a vital role in facilitating entrepreneurial learning, with context and network serving as essential learning mechanisms. However, these elements are often disregarded in traditional entrepreneurship education approaches. This study highlights a gap in the literature where the focus of entrepreneurial learning is primarily on entrepreneurs, while entrepreneurship education primarily focuses on students and educators. The study’s contribution is its emphasis on the importance of social networks in entrepreneurial learning and its potential for redesigning entrepreneurship education. By bridging the gap between entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship education, it is possible to create educational approaches that more closely mimic how entrepreneurs learn in real life, potentially leading to more impactful entrepreneurial activity.

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Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge

Cited by 11 publications

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A workplace organisational intervention to improve hospital nurses’ and physicians’ mental health: study protocol for the Magnet4Europe wait list cluster randomised controlled trial

A workplace organisational intervention to improve hospital nurses’ and physicians’ mental health: study protocol for the Magnet4Europe wait list cluster randomised controlled trial

Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Management Tool in Ghana's Telecommunication Industry: A Systematic Review

The Path to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Networks in Driving Entrepreneurial Learning and Education

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