Cultural barriers between organization and knowledge management
1) Technical University Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Sciences, Romania,
2) Regional Department of Education, Durres, Albania,
3) "Alecsander Moisiu" University, Durres, Albania
PROCEEDINGS of
North International Conference of Economics,
Issue 1 / 2016,
pp.300-311
ISSN 2537-317X
ABSTRACT
The article is about the Albanian’s organization culture influences and knowledge management
barriers in the small and medium sized enterprises. Taking in consideration the internal and
external environment of the SME’s the organization culture becomes a mediator between
personal knowledge and organization knowledge. The article identifies the cultural barriers for
the knowledge management as: differences between the manager’s actions, the apathy in the
dissemination of knowledge, the over appreciation of the technology, the attitude upon the
global market. The paper attempts to create a comprehensive model to discover relationship
between the components of organizational culture and knowledge management in correlation
with the cultural dynamic of a global market in a continuing movement. The foundation of the
21st organization needs a new type a new manufacture for future –MANU-FUTURE, a new
organization when money and capital and technology are no longer the key elements, but the
culture for activities in knowledge management can be critical and determination.
Keywords: knowledge management, innovation, cultural barriers, organization culture.
