What is ‘information’ and why is there a greater emphasis today on information than on information technology?

MAJOR: information and organizations (MASTER)7 DAYS PASS。 2000 WORDS
REQUIREMENTS:
The Learning Portfolio
The learning portfolio is a compilation of tutorial work undertaken by students throughout the semester. Students are required to submit answers to ANY 3 of the 7 tutorial sessions (between weeks 3 and 10). Each week, students will be provided with a reading for their tutorial session. This reading is listed in the Module Guide and all are available to download through the Library website.

Questions on each weeks reading are available through Queen’s on-line (QOL). It is the student’s responsibility to access and download both the nominated reading for the tutorial as well as the associated questions.

Prior to the tutorial session, students are advised to read, summarize the main points in the paper and attempt to answer the questions posed.

During the tutorial session in-depth and critical discussion of the paper/case study will occur. Students are encouraged to use the notes they have prepared for the tutorial and supplement these notes, based on the discussion.

After the tutorial session, students are required to refine their tutorial work and use this in compiling the Learning Portfolio.

For each of the 3 written submissions you should follow the template as outlined below (please start each week’s submission on a new page):

Week X

Bibliographic Reference

Question
As outlined in your tutorial guide.

Your answer – This should be a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 800 words. (TOTALLY 2000 WORDS. )

This format should be repeated for each of the 3 submissions that choose. The submission for each week should start on a new page and all of the submissions combined into one document.
3 TUTORIAL SESSION
1.
1. Week 5

Reading:
Hau, Y.S., Kim, B., Lee, H., Kim Y-G. 2013. The effects of individual motivations and social capital on employees’ tacit and explicit knowledge sharing intentions. International Journal of Information Management. 33, 2, 356-366

Question to be answered in your portfolio:
Drawing on the work of Hau et al (2012) discuss how employee knowledge sharing intentions are affected by individual motivation and social capital and how businesses might respond to these findings.

2. Week 3

Reading:
Strikwerda, J. 2011 Competing on Information: An exploration of concepts, Nolan Norton Institute, Working Paper, Dec 2011, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1973575
Read pp 1-34

Question to be answered in your portfolio:
What is ‘information’ and why is there a greater emphasis today on information than on information technology?

3 Week 4

Reading:
Strikwerda, J. 2011 Competing on Information: An exploration of concepts, Nolan Norton Institute, Working Paper, Dec 2011, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1973575
Read pp 34-59

Question to be answered in your portfolio:
In what ways can information increase business’s competitiveness?
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