Knowledge Management and E Learning

Question: Discuss about the Knowledge Management and E Learning. Answer: Introduction: People are fast in changing their lifestyle, taste of choice, the art of living every minute keeping pace with this globalized world. Many types of changes has already occurred which has no similarity with the traditional procedure of those works. If the mode of learning is taken as the topic of discussion then it has already gone through several changes. The former pen and paper mode of learning is not being followed everywhere by now. The new process of learning that has emerged is named "E-Learning", in which one can learn things by internet surfing (Concannon et al. 2010, p.501). These types of learning help a student to learn from home which is the main merit of this learning process. From the Ford and Taylor scientific management e-learning material the two following blogs are written. The given e-learning material based on Ford and Taylor scientific management has shown the few important reasons due to which Ford Car is automobile industry mogul today. One of the key reasons is the time management technique used by the then efficiency expert of the organization Mr. Frederick Taylor. There was a use of the stopwatch to increase their tolerance level as he knows if there is no time bound target in a work the workers will put enough lethargy in their duty hours leading to the steady decline in productivity and progress. Knowing it well that it is natural human psychology and the no workers will deliberately do that, he bound them in time. Hence, such thinking has improved work efficiency in the better way (YouTube, 2016). One of them showed nearly four times hike in his efficiency to work than his previous work efficiency. Worlds fastest typist herself is the gift of that strict rule. Firstly the workers of that said the company never followed any haste to do their job, they usually did it very slowly though carefully. But it always takes a time bound hard work to flourish something. So they applied a hard work earn high pattern of a job (Duguay et al. 2013, p.1083). Even no employee is allowed to talk with any co-workers, and must leave a worker behind to complete his job if he is out of the work for some bio-breaks. This was the reason for an increase in their production thus could able to price lowering of the car. These changes get followed immediately with product sell hike and profit gain which brings extra bucks to the pockets of the workers. That was good news for them after much toil. British Airways as an organization on which the formerly said Taylors time management technique is being applied for the sake of discussion. It is known that no employee is going to take up extra pressure themselves (Drucker, 2010, p.79). So airways management board can impose some rules on employees such as they will have to come and start their respective jobs on time, they have to make sure that no flight delay due to any type of causality shown by the regarding staffs, if any seat is left vacant then a lot it as soon as possible to the passengers who need to board urgently. Such time bound and time obeying attitude can hike the number of efficient workers as well as the productivity. It will also help to increase the goodwill of the company which plays a major role in the progress and profit making a process of any business conglomerate. The material also showed the worker friendly attitude of Mr. Henry Ford, founder of Ford Cars company. It is quite natural phenomenon in every industry that they are always likely to be inclined towards the experienced workers (Witzel and Warner, 2015, p.45). But it was Mr. Ford who thought it in different style and his reason was no experience is needed to be an efficient worker; he just has to know best his portion of the work, rather knowing the whole procedure of manufacturing. He started to do this work by dividing the whole work into small parts and divided them into small group of workers; this helped to decrease the extra baggage of total manufacturing from the mind of the worker, so he now can just concentrate on his small part of job and increase his efficacy. Thus, the whole manufacturing steps were being done very attentively making the final product classy. In order to facilitate this process he thought further and invented worlds first manufacturing process using assembly line, at first it was manual then it assumed mechanical form and used to send the product chain wise to the workers who will do the next step of working on the partially finished material this reduced the wastage of time and energy of the worker due to changing their position here and there (Sallaz, 2014, p.299). This wise man also hiked workers remuneration to show gratitude towards their hard work as the company was flourishing, it was first of that kind from any company (Liebowitz et al. 2016, p.33). This worker friendly behavior inundated this organization with more application of workers around the world. British petroleum is taken as the organization on which the worker friendly behavior idea can be imposed. The workers of that company mainly handle with energy and petrochemical works. So the company need to give extra care on the safety of workers which will give them the support that company will take care of them in case of any workplace mishap. This mental support will help them to devote him properly and fearlessly to the work, giving rise to the productivity. Moreover, it is also a huge need to arm more safety measures in the whole unit so that the mishap can be avoided (Wang et al. 2010, p.1792). Apart from that, providing with more work friendly tools in the machinery will be good. It will reduce workers energy wastage; can better be used in his scheduled work. Conclusion: Thus, using an e-learning material proved to be fruitful. It shows that to flourish any industry it is necessity to take care of two things. First is the time need to be managed, so that work is completed in proper time. 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