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- Title
Knowledge Management: MANAGING THE TRANSITION TO POST-MODERN SOCIETY.
- Authors
Caldwell, Lynton K.
- Abstract
This article focuses on managing the transition to post-modern society. Modern culture has spread throughout the world creating vast and complex societies such as the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The homogenization of cultures accompanying the modern transition has destroyed much of the traditional distinctiveness. variety, and color in the world, but it has also opened the way to new forms of complexity and to the rapid and worldwide transmission of information and knowledge. Changes in attitudes and beliefs may be expected to occur more rapidly than adaptive changes in institutions, laws, and organizational theories. The prospect for public administration in the predictable future is one of extraordinary difficulty. A compounding of crises in an era of fundamental ideological change will add greatly to the need for foresight, initiative, flexibility, and sensitivity in the management of public affairs. The particular kinds of knowledge more needed than ever are knowledge of trends, interactions, and synergistic effects. The knowledge that is needed is not to be confused with mere information. Knowledge is derived from information, and consequently the marshalling, collating, organizing, analyzing, focusing, and testing of information becomes, more than ever before. Actual decisions, however, are made by individual persons.
- Subjects
POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); SOCIAL change; BELIEF &; doubt; PUBLIC administration; KNOWLEDGE management; DECISION making
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1975, Vol 35, Issue 6, p567
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974272