Management studies educational knowledge: technical, elite or political?

Socio-Technical Knowledge Management: Studies and Initiatives

Knowledge management professionals are consistently presented with the challenges of socio-technical initiatives when it comes to enhancing, sharing, and utilizing knowledge and information in corporate, scholarly, and professional applications.Socio-Technical Knowledge Management: Studies and Initiatives connects knowledge management theory to knowledge management practice, allowing the empiri...

socio - technical Knowledge Management : studies and Initiatives

On first reading this book, I could not decide if I was delighted with the breadth covered or if I felt I would have preferred more in-depth coverage of fewer issues. On second reading, I still was not sure. In the words of the author herself, ‘this book embraces difference, as evidenced by a wide variety of studies presented in 22 chapters that differ in perspectives on knowledge (explicit and...

Elite Theory in Political Sociology

Elite theory‟s origins lie most clearly in the writings of Gaetano Mosca (18581941), Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), and Robert Michels (1876-1936). Mosca emphasized the ways in which tiny minorities out-organize and outwit large majorities, adding that “political classes” – Mosca‟s term for political elites – usually have “a certain material, intellectual, or even moral superiority” over those th...

Elite or non elite: ccomparing mindfulness Items in Iranian athletes

The purpose of this study was to compare selected Mindful skills in Iranian athletes.  The athlete's sample included 112 athletes with 23.6 average. The FFMQ has been shown to have strong psychometric characteristics, including adequate to excellent internal consistencies for all five facets (Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.92) as well as good construct validity (2). Cronbach's alpha fo...

Public Management Decision-Making: Technical vs. Political Decisions