Personal Knowledge Management Employability ECIC 2011

1. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)and Personal Employability Management (PEM)– Concepts Based on Competences Marzena Świgoń University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland ECIC 2011 3rd EuropeanConference on Intellectual CapitalUniversity of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus18-19 April 2011

2. KSC universaltypology Knowledge Skills Competences American approach: competency (pl. competencies) – attributes of an individualand/+ British approach: competence (pl. competences ) – demands of the job(Winterton 2009) PKM – origin, definitions, models Employability – perspectives, dimensions PKM & PEM skills and competences OutlinePersonalKnowledge Management & PersonalEmployability Management ECIC 2011

4. PKM - set of skills, attitudes, methods that lead to more effective cognition, communication, collaboration, creativity, problem solving, lifelong learning etc. (Jefferson 2006; Pauleen 2009; Świgoń 2009) PKM aspires to foster the development and utilisation of personal knowledge and competencies (Pircher 2010) 1998 - workshops for MBA students at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and then in Tabor School of Business at Millikin University (Frand and Hixon 1998; Avery et al. 2001; Frand and Lippincott 2002) PKM (1/2)PersonalKnowledge Management ECIC 2011

5. personalin PKM personalknowledge (PK)M, P(KM), (PKM) (Zhang 2009) variety of PKM models(Świgoń 2010) model PKM 2.0(Cheong and Tsui 2010) Personal Information Management (PIM) Personal Knowledge Internalization (PKI) Personal Wisdom Creation (PWC) and Inter-Personal Knowledge Transferring (IKT) PKM (2/2) ECIC 2011

6. employability of the workforce as human resource strategy of individuals (Rothwell, Jewell and Hardie 2009) 2) and 3) - ability to keep the job one has or to get the job one desires(Rothwell and Arnold 2007) PersonalEmployabilityManagement (PEM) – self perceived employability of individuals (skills and competences in a work context) Employability and PEM (1/2) ECIC 2011

7. determined by factors within the control of the individual that are outside their control (Clarke 2008) continuous fulfilling, acquiring or creating of work through the optimal use of competences (Van derHeijde and Van derHeijden 2006) five dimensions: occupational expertise anticipation and optimisation personal flexibility corporate sense balance Employability and PEM (2/2) ECIC 2011

8. Employability(Mallough andKleiner2001) management skills computer and other technical skills communications skills organisational skills specific skills generalskills psychologicalskills interaction and networking educational and vocational training skills gained from the educational process interviewing and resume skills PKM (Barth2004) accessing information and ideas evaluating organizing analyzing collaborating conveying securing PKM (Wright2005) cognitive competences information competences social competences learning and development competences Skills and competences(examples of lists) ECIC 2011

9. Personal skills and competences self-knowledge (of strong and weak points), professional/occupational knowledge, expertise, writing, reading, foreign languages; motivation and commitment, active attitude, problem solving, decision making, creativity, analysis, learning and self-development, reflecting etc. Interpersonal skills and competences knowledge about macro/world and micro/local environment; listening, talking, communicating, conveying; teamwork, collaborating creating of relationships, socializing, coordinating etc. Information and technological skills and competences knowledge about information sources; information retrieving, storing, sending, presenting, distributing, securing, evaluating, organizing etc. PKM & PEM skills and competences ECIC 2011

10. effectiveness of individuals in all spheres of life (private and professional) PKM as a support of employability benefits for whole organisations and society (personal knowledge - a part of intellectual capital) The author’s empirical studies in the scope of PKM & PEM are under way and will be reported soon. Thank you marzena.swigon@uwm.edu.pl ConclusionPersonalKnowledge Management & PersonalEmployability Management ECIC 2011