Replicative indwelling: Mitigating lost knowledge through accelerated experiential exposure

Abstract

An aging workforce presents a serious threat to the stability and continuity of an organization as that workforce takes with it into retirement years of experience, insight, and knowledge. As a result, organizations are faced with the challenge of how to mitigate the loss of intellectual capital during the process of transferring knowledge to the remaining workforce in order to maximize the chances of continued organizational success. This paper offers a practical method of application for intra-organizational professional development that seeks to mitigate lost knowledge by introducing a process referred to as Accelerated Experiential Exposure, as well as an epistemological frame from which it is presented, referred to as Replicative Indwelling.

Editorial Preface to the OJAKM Special Issue on Knowledge Management: Research, Organization and Applied Innovation

“…During this path we prepared for you, one important value of knowledge is when it is shared, and hence research seeks for effective ways to share or pass knowledge (Szulanski, 1996), to extract, store or retrieve data and knowledge, as well as to collect and interpret information (e.g., Stahl, & Buckles 2016;Ziemba, Eisenbardt, Roisin, & Grabara, 2017). Other times knowledge is considered as an asset to be effectively exploited, thereby research aims at studying tools, instruments, spaces, platforms, or methods to do so (e.g., Soniewicki, 2017;Niccolini, Bartolacci, Cristalli, & Isidori, 2018).…”