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“Think with your Senses – Feel with your Mind”: Cognitive and Affective Domains in Knowledge Creation and Sharing.

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Author

  • Peter Bednar
  • Christine Welch

Editor

  • D. Harorimana
  • D. Watkins

Summary, in English

On a recent trip to Venice, an advertising hoarding was spotted which read ‘Think with your senses, feel with your mind!’ This reminded the authors to think about the relationship between cognitive aspects of individual and organizational knowledge on one hand and feelings/emotions – the affective domain – on the other. When using knowledge within an organizational context, an individual cannot divorce her understandings from the full range of experiences within which they were developed, i.e. life as it is lived. In last year’s keynote address, Daniel Andriessen referred to love as a metaphor in the context of knowledge management discourse. The relationship between feelings, cognitive processes and the creation of ‘knowledge’ is a fascinating area of inquiry in its own right. In drawing on the disparate but existing body of work while addressing this aspect of knowledge creation and sharing the authors draw out some useful conclusions in the context of knowledge management in organisational practices.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

43-50

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

ACI Academic Conferences International

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • Contextual Analysis
  • knowledge work systems
  • Cognitive and affective domains
  • metaphor
  • Contextual Inquiry

Conference name

ECKM 2008. 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management,

Conference date

2008-09-01 - 2008-09-03

Conference place

Southampton, United Kingdom

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-906638-10-8