• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

ASSIGNMENT-2

Knowledge Management (MGT-403)

First Semester (2020-2021)

Course Learning Outcomes-Covered

Submission Guidelines

• All students are encouraged to use their own words.
• This assignment is individual assignment.
• Be very specific and focused on the issue while answering a question.
• Student must apply Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines and review at least three (3) scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles to support their answer for each question.
• A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.
• No marks will be given for irrelevant details.
• It is strongly encouraged that you should submit all assignments into the safe assignment Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading.
• If the assignment shows more than 25% plagiarism, the students would be graded zero.

Assignment 2.

The focus of the assignment is to evaluate the understanding level of students related to communities of Practice, learning organization, Students are required to:

Read the material covered in Chapter 5 “Knowledge sharing and Communities of Practice” thoroughly from book as well as other sources.

Use the following link besides other material to access the research paper titled, “Using communities of practice towards the next level of knowledge-management maturity”

https://sajim.co.za/index.php/SAJIM/article/view/5…

Assignment Questions

Besides chapter 5 material, use above journal link to access the research paper titled, “Using communities of practice towards the next level of knowledge-management maturity” and write an essay containing following points. (500-600 Words) (5 Marks)

• Concept of communities of Practice.
• Highlight key components of Community of Practice.
• Roles and responsibilities in communities of practice.
• Chief obstacles to knowledge sharing.
• Concept of Learning Organization.
• Paragraph about the organization used for case study purposes in the above article.
• Summary of results / findings of case study.
• The main recommendations of the study.