IOSR-JBM   Volume-1 ~ Issue-2 ~ May-Jun-2012

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Knowledge Management: Some Issues and Challenges for Corporate Excellence in the 21st century
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Dr. M. Subba Rao
	:	10.9790/487X-0120103

Abstract: The 21st century is seeing the emergence of a knowledge society where the only differentiation between success and failure, for individuals, societies and business corporate houses, is the knowledge they tapup, disseminate and use it for gaining a competitive advantage. Today, the business corporations will have to deal with entirely new challenges to meet customer demand, move from competition to collaborative reconfiguration, dovetail supplier and subcontractor processes to the corporate goals and empower employees to be able to meet and surpass customer expectations. However, more often than not, knowledge management implementations are merely glorified departmental solutions, created by some people to address specific problems. This approach, as a matter of fact, confines the value of knowledge management to business process improvements within a relatively small group. Perhaps these efforts are helpful, but knowledge management (KM) is most valuable and holistic one when tied to enterprise-wide strategy. Formulating and implementing appropriate strategies for these enterprise-wide Knowledge Management initiatives need a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the needs of corporate business enterprises from a variety of perspectives. Therefore, it is important for a corporate house to know its core competencies and have a deep understanding of how it creates value for its customers. Failure to recognize this fact and putting a Knowledge Management layer on top of existing inefficiencies in business processes will complicate the use of Knowledge Management. Against this background, an attempt in this paper is made to present the core issues and processes of Knowledge Management and the challenges being faced by the corporate business houses for its successful implementation to gain competitive advantages in the 21st century. [1]

1. Woman S. Jawadekar – 2011 "Knowledge Management", Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, pp 1-20.
2. Michael Armstrong – 2009 "Strategic Human Resource Management", Kogan Pace India Private Ltd., New Delhi, pp 149-153.
3. Amrit Tiwana – 2008 "The Knowledge Management Toolkit", Dorling Kindersley Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp 295-317.
4. Amrit Tiwana – 2008 "The Knowledge Management Toolkit", Dorling Kindersley Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp 331-371.
5. Amrit Tiwana – 2008 "The Knowledge Management Toolkit", Dorling Kindersley Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp 374-387.
6. Amrit Tiwana – 2008 "The Knowledge Management Toolkit", Dorling Kindersley Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp 397-406.

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	A Study on Human Capital Valuation and Management
Country	:	India
Authors	:	K. V. N. Pallavi, A. K. Neeraja Rani
	:	10.9790/487X-0120407

Abstract: The days of exploitation of human resources on fiscal grounds and work load has wiped by the emergence of the era of Human capital. Many organisations recognised that there is a minor margin between "Best" and "The Best". It is possible for organisations to be called as "The Best" only if they could able to make parity between effective work from employees and efficiency of the same employees. It is that much difficult to maintain parity as many big organisations fail to continue in "The Best" position. It is fruitful only when Human is treated as Capital than a Resource/ expenditure. The difficulty starts then how to value Human capital, how to maintain it? The paper presents an insight in to the various methods of valuing Human Capital and how to maintain it successfully.
Keywords-Effectiveness, Efficiency, Human Capital, Human Capital Evaluation, Human Capital Management,

Websites:
[1] http://www.wilmar-international.com/investor/annualreports/2009/5_wilmar_AR09_HCM&IT.pdf
[2] http://renegadehr.net/free-downloads/human-capital-handbook-2011.pdf
[3] http://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filing/annual-report/annual/documents/AR-2011/ai_13.html
[4] http://www.nisg.org/home.php?page=humancapital.php
Conference Reports/Journals/Surveys:
[5] ASUG/SAP best practices survey (surveyed 250 companies).
[6] ASUG/SAP HR benchmarking program.
[7] Human Capital Metrics Conference: 2011, New York Marriott Downtown.
Books:
[8] Fitz-enz, Jac, The ROI of Human Capital. Amacom, 2000.
[9] Jody Heymann with Magda Barrera- "Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce": Harvard Business Press, 2010.
[10] Strategic Human Capital Management: Creating … (Paperback) by Jon Ingham.

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Role of International Financial Organizations in the Economic Growth of Bangladesh: A Case Study from the Perspective of Project Finance Challenges & Prospects
Country	:	Bangladesh
Authors	:	Fahmida Ahmed
	:	10.9790/487X-0120819

Abstract : Economic growth is one aspect of the process of economic development which shows the increasing capacity of the economy to satisfy the demand of goods and services of the member of the society. International Financial Organizations can play an actives role in this core area of economic development. These organizations support the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh to reduce the poverty and increase the productivity of rural poor people in ways that are both sustainable and environmentally friendly. The study reveals some selected International Financial Organizations are contributes enough to achieve stable growth of the economic through project finance. This paper focuses on the contributions of four major, high-profile organizations: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Financial Corporation (IFC). This study also consider the question how project finance can affect economic growth: that leads not only to an increase in the quantity of capital but most importantly also to an improvement in the quality of capital and thus ultimately to economic growth
Key words: International Financial Organizations, Project Finance and Economic growth.

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