O tworzeniu kultury organizacyjnej biblioteki jako środowiska pracowników wiedzy

Abstract

The concept o f knowledge management has been gaining more and more significance in management o f an organization. At the same time, the importance of the group o f staff labelled as knowledge workers, whose members have high levé o f competence in particular fields, appropriate education or experience and for whom the most important goal is to do research and to foster dissemination o f its results or its applications, is being emphasized. This group also includes librarians. It is their innovativeness and productivity that influences to a high degree a successful operation of an institution. This group, however, on account o f its position within the structure of an organization, is more than ready to question management styles or organizational issues of their parent institutions should a need arise. A creation of proper organizational culture of staff and its subsequent maintenance poses then a serious challenge that requires a particular set of actions. The paper, describing the specificity of this group o f employees, attempts to discuss difficulty and complexity o f actions to be undertaken by the management especially by the head librarian, to construct and maintain an appropriate organizational culture in the library.