{"id":283,"date":"2007-12-15T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/12\/15\/free-agency-teams-and-knowledge-sharing\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:26:51","slug":"free-agency-teams-and-knowledge-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/free-agency-teams-and-knowledge-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Agency, Teams and Knowledge Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul from Oracle AppsLab has a post on whether <a href=\"http:\/\/theappslab.com\/2007\/12\/14\/admit-it-were-all-free-agents\/\">viewing all employees as free agents would contribute to better knowledge management within an organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So if we found a way to enable people to build their own personal brand through activities we want to incent (like sharing, collaboration, etc), both employees and employers could be substantially better off<a href=\"http:\/\/theappslab.com\/2007\/12\/14\/admit-it-were-all-free-agents\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For me the high-concept is less interesting than how a management team would translate it into action.<\/p>\n<p>For me, individuals should be rewarded for group performance allowing peers to recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge sharing and creation springs from an environment of high trust and fair reward. This is best fostered in an organization composed of self-directed, cross-functional teams that demonstrate progress frequently and visibly against clear priorities. Rewards should be based on both team and organizational performance. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/balkanization.png\" alt='Balkanization' style=\"border:0;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Team rewards motivate individuals to collaborate within their team and the team to raise up each other&#8217;s performance or eject members that can&#8217;t carry their weight. Individual rewards or advancement should result from a process that solicits input and obtains buy in from peers.<\/p>\n<p>Organizational rewards motivate teams into healthy &#8220;bounded cohabitation&#8221;, bringing the best new learning to the rest of the organization, rather than dysfunctional &#8220;balkanization&#8221; where one team&#8217;s failure advantages another.<\/p>\n<p>This requires management to take a coaching, facilitating role and senior leadership to set ambitious goals while embodying the values they expect others to embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul from Oracle AppsLab has a post on whether viewing all employees as free agents would contribute to better knowledge management within an organization. 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