Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)and Personal Employability Management

(PEM)– Concepts Based on Competences

Marzena ŚwigońUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

ECIC 20113rd European Conference on Intellectual

CapitalUniversity of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

18-19 April 2011

KSC universal typology Knowledge Skills Competences

American approach: competency (pl. competencies) – attributes of an individual and/+ British approach: competence (pl. competences ) – demands of the job (Winterton 2009)

PKM – origin, definitions, models

Employability – perspectives, dimensions

PKM & PEM skills and competences

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Competences cognitive competence

(knowledge and understanding) functional competence

(skills) social competence

(attitudes and behaviours)

meta-competence

Basic skills behavioural and personal skills

(e.g. flexibility, self learning, motivation and commitment, decision making)

cross section and basic work and technical skills

(e.g. quality awareness, entrepreneurship, work and project organisation)

soft and method skills(e.g. communication and moderation,

languages and culture, collaboration, creative, information handling, documentation and presentation)

Knowledge – skills – competences (KSC)

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PKM - set of skills, attitudes, methods that lead to more effective cognition, communication, collaboration, creativity, problem solving, lifelong learning etc. (Jefferson 2006; Pauleen 2009; Świgoń 2009)

PKM aspires to foster the development and utilisation of personal knowledge and competencies (Pircher 2010)

1998 - workshops for MBA students at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and then in Tabor School of Business at Millikin University (Frand and Hixon 1998; Avery et al. 2001; Frand and Lippincott 2002)

PKM (1/2)

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personal in PKM personal knowledge (PK)M, P(KM), (PKM) (Zhang 2009)

variety of PKM models (Świgoń 2010)

model PKM 2.0 (Cheong and Tsui 2010)

Personal Information Management (PIM) Personal Knowledge Internalization (PKI) Personal Wisdom Creation (PWC) and Inter-Personal Knowledge Transferring (IKT)

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employability1) of the workforce2) as human resource strategy3) of individuals (Rothwell, Jewell and Hardie 2009)

2) and 3) - ability to keep the job one has or to get the job one desires (Rothwell and Arnold 2007)

Personal Employability Management (PEM) – self perceived employability of individuals (skills and competences in a work context)

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determined by factors within the control of the individual that are outside their control (Clarke 2008)

continuous fulfilling, acquiring or creating of work through the optimal use of competences (Van der Heijde and Van der Heijden 2006)

five dimensions:1) occupational expertise2) anticipation and optimisation3) personal flexibility4) corporate sense5) balance

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Employability (Mallough and Kleiner 2001)

management skills computer and other technical skills communications skills organisational skills specific skills general skills psychological skills interaction and networking educational and vocational training skills gained from the educational

process interviewing and resume skills

PKM (Barth 2004)

1. accessing information and ideas2. evaluating3. organizing4. analyzing 5. collaborating6. conveying7. securing

PKM (Wright 2005)

8. cognitive competences9. information competences10. social competences11. learning and development

competences

Skills and competences(examples of lists)

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Personal skills and competences self-knowledge (of strong and weak points), professional/occupational knowledge,

expertise, writing, reading, foreign languages; motivation and commitment, active attitude, problem solving, decision making, creativity, analysis, learning and self-development, reflecting etc.

Interpersonal skills and competences knowledge about macro/world and micro/local environment; listening, talking,

communicating, conveying; teamwork, collaborating creating of relationships, socializing, coordinating etc.

Information and technological skills and competences knowledge about information sources; information retrieving, storing, sending,

presenting, distributing, securing, evaluating, organizing etc.

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effectiveness of individuals in all spheres of life (private and professional)

PKM as a support of employability benefits for whole organisations and society (personal knowledge - a part of

intellectual capital)

The author’s empirical studies in the scope of PKM & PEMare under way and will be reported soon.

Thank youmarzena.swigon@uwm.edu.pl

Conclusion Personal Knowledge Management & Personal Employability Management

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