Write a 6 page essay on Ringberg, T. and Reihlen, M. (2008) 'Towards a Socio-Cognitive Approach to Knowledge Transfer'.The new model helps explain the anomalies found in the two former approaches. Sum

Write a 6 page essay on Ringberg, T. and Reihlen, M. (2008) 'Towards a Socio-Cognitive Approach to Knowledge Transfer'.

The new model helps explain the anomalies found in the two former approaches. Summary Knowledge management is one of the most crucial aspects of business that helps them to gain competitive advantage. The explicit and implicit use of knowledge within an organization or a society becomes the most powerful tool to define social relationships and major catalyst of change. Literature review shows that judicious use of knowledge improves and improvises outcome through increased competency and creative input. Positivist and social construction are two key approaches in research epistemology that scholars have used to explain the process of knowledge transfer. Positivist approach believes that knowledge pre-exists in texts and other format that are de-coded by individuals to propagate it. The communication channels become useful in sharing the knowledge that is deemed an asset. The resource based view therefore exploits the same to improve its performance. It emphasizes knowledge as an object that is sought or exploited for its inherent content. It can be codified and stored such that its retrieval encourages sharing of knowledge. Social construction, on the other hand, emphasizes that knowledge is socially constructed and is transferred through practice and action. It speculates that knowledge resides within the system like routine, archive, memo etc. which enhances organizational productivity. The precept and concept of knowledge become strong tools that widen the scope of existing resources for improved productivity. But both the approaches fail to take into considerations the changing dynamics of environment that influence the cognitive ability of individuals to absorb knowledge or to manipulate information to suit the changing paradigms of social control. As such, the socio-cognitive model of knowledge transfer fills the gap. It uses the tacit knowledge and evaluates its viability to absorb or create new framework of transferring knowledge. The cultural and private models promote reflective and categorical processing. The cultural and private models rely on the ideologies of group that individuals identify with and which influence the way knowledge is processed. Categorical process predefines the outcome whereas reflective process helps to improve and improvise outcome through critical thinking. Thus, socio-cognitive model helps to explain more comprehensively the propagation of knowledge. Critique The researchers have extensively used literature to show as to how the Positivist theory and theory of social construction, both lack critical thinking. It fails to rationalize knowledge transfer in diversified situation under changing social dynamics. Positivist approach sees knowledge as objects dissociated with human input of ideas and thoughts. Perception of object is inherently linked to interpretation of same and understands it with regard to its physicality or object reality. Most importantly, the perceived reality is also influenced by the manipulation of information that is stored in our memory (Winn &amp. Snyder, 1996). Hence, perception significantly relies on cognitive processing that defines its accuracy and relevance to the event. This is interesting because it lends credibility to the research hypothesis.