Leadership Role in Integrating Knowledge Management Enablers

Knowledge sharing in an organization is the need of the hour and required for survival in global competition. Organizations realize its importance and need to take concrete steps to ensure its sharing. Leadership has to play critical role effective role in motivating employees to share, by encouraging them, giving them confidence and making them part of decision making. This would ensure a high level of commitment and hence help in achieving effective knowledge management, which will not only achieve competitive advantage but sustain it too. Organizational strategy should clearly identify knowledge strategy. Leadership should encourage knowledge sharing and that will eventually lead to integration of knowledge management enablers namely, culture, intellectual capital, process and strategy.