Differences between men and women

Differences between men and women For a long time there has been considerable scientific interest in studying differences between men and women and the effect that these differences have within the relationship. The sexes are different because their brains are different. The brain, the chief administrative and emotional organ of life, is differently constructed in men and in women; it processes information in a different way, which results in different perceptions, priorities, and behavior. Women have four times as many brain cells (neurons) connecting the right and left side of their brain. This finding provides evidence that supports the observation that men rely easily and more heavily on their left brain to solve one problem one step at a time. Women have more efficient access to both sides of their brain and therefore greater use of their right brain. Women can focus on more than one problem at one time and frequently prefer to solve problems through multiple activities at a time. Nearly every parent has observe d how young girls find the conversations of young boys boring. Young boys express confusion and would rather play sports than participate actively in a conversation between girls who are discussing as many as three subjects at once Recognizing, understanding, discussing as well as acting skillfully in light of the differences between men and women can be difficult. Our failure to recognize and appreciate these differences can become a lifelong source of disappointment, frustration, tension and eventually our downfall in a relationship. Relationships between men and women are not impossible or necessarily difficult. Problems simply arise when we expect or assume the opposite sex should think, feel or act the way we do. Its not that men and women live in completely different realities. Rather, our lack of knowledge and mutual experience gives rise to our difficulties. Men and women approach problems with similar goals but with different considerations. While men and women can solve problems equally well, their approach and their process are often quite different. For most women, sharing and discussing a problem presents an opportunity to explore, deepen or strengthen the relationship with the person they are talk ing with. Woman is usually more concerned about how problems are solved than merely solving the problem itself. For women, solving a problem can profoundly impact whether they feel closer and less alone or whether they feel distant and less connected. The process of solving a problem can strengthen or weaken a relationship. Most men are less concerned and do not feel the same as women when solving a problem. Men approach problems in a very different manner than women. For most men, solving a problem presents an opportunity to demonstrate their competence, their strength of resolve, and their commitment to a relationship. How the problem is solved is not nearly as important as solving it effectively and in the best possible manner. Men have a tendency to dominate and to assume authority in a problem solving process. They set aside their feelings provided the dominance hierarchy was agreed upon in advance and respected. They are often distracted and do not attend well to the quality o f the relationship while solving problems. While men and women can reach similar conclusions and make similar decisions, the process they use can be quite different and in some cases can lead to entirely different outcomes. In general, men and women consider and process information differently. Women tend to be intuitive global thinkers, they come to understand and consider problems all at once. Men tend to focus on one problem at a time or a limited number of problems at a time. They have an enhanced ability to separate themselves from problems and minimize the complexity that may exist. Men come to understand and consider problems one piece at a time. There is evidence to suggest that a great deal of the sensitivity that exists within men and women has a physiological basis. It has been observed that is many cases, women have an enhanced physical alarm response to danger or threat. Their autonomic and sympathetic systems have a lower threshold of arousal and greater reactivity than men. In both men and women, higher levels of testosterone directly affect the aggressive response and behavior centers of the brain. Increasing estrogen and progesterone in men has a feminizing effect. Sexually aggressive males become less focused on sexual aggressive behavior and content when they are given female hormones. On the other hand, changing estrogen and progesterone levels in women during menstrual cycles can produce a flood of memories as well as strong emotions. Increasing or high levels of testosterone can produce an emotional insensitivity, empathic block and increased indifference to the distress others. At the heart of sensitivity is our capacity to form, appreciate and maintain relationships that are rewarding. Even here there are important differences. For men, what demonstrates a solid relationship is quite different from that of most women. Men feel closer and validated through shared activities. Such activities include sports, competition, outdoor activities or sexual activities that are decidedly active and physical. While both men and women can appreciate and engage in these activities they often have preferential differences. Women, on the other hand, feel closer and validated through communication, dialogue and intimate sharing of experience, emotional content and personal perspectives. Many men tend to find such sharing and involvement uncomfortable, if not, overwhelming.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  These differences found in men and women help me understand why relationships are complicated, and why is important to learn and accept these differences. I have a pretty good relationship with my boyfriend but sometimes I feel he does not care enough for the relationship, and that is because we do not how to communicate. That is something that I have been trying to change. I understand that we perceive things different but there are things that we can do to improve the relationship and we both know we can do better. Everything is part of understanding each other and be mature in the relationship. If I love somebody I will try to understand and identify our differences and make changes for the benefit of both.

Everybodys All American :: essays research papers

Everybody’s All-American is the story of a famous football player who becomes an overweight middle-aged has-been. Gavin "the Gray Ghost" Gray is a legendary college football player who marries his homecoming queen sweetheart and embarks on a professional career full of difficulties. â€Å"The Gray Ghost† is a Louisiana football legend. There had never been a better, faster ball player, and everyone knows the hero is headed for pro football. To no one's surprise, Gavin marries his sweetheart, beauty queen â€Å"Babs.† He is a first-draft pick in the pros, as expected, and soon after that, the two begin their family. I was especially interested in this movie because I am, myself, a college athlete. This movie brought out the importance of having a life and goals other than playing a professional sport. Too many young athletes these days have unrealistic goals of going to the pros, while in actuality the chances of them doing so are next to impossible. Many athletes are in college just to play their sport, and do not care about their academic performance. Eventually, the limelight will fade and professional athletes will become has-beens left to reminisce about their â€Å"glory days.† Often in college, athletes will do just enough to get by and not care about what their academic performance means. Unfortunately, especially in some larger schools, preferential treatment for athletes does exist among the faculty. This also gives athletes the advantage at the time, but hurts them in the long run. In the movie, the ideal marriage of Gavin and Babs begins to come apart, when Gavin cannot deal with the loss of the glory he had in his youth.

The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 24

Dear Diary, It's the night before the night of our first party – or rather gala. But I don't feel very gala. I miss Stefan too much. I've been brooding about Matt, too. How he walked away, so angry at me, not even looking back. He didn't understand how I could†¦care for†¦Damon, and yet still love Stefan so much that it felt as if my heart was breaking. Elena put down the pen and stared at her diary dully. The heartbreak manifested itself in actual physical pains in her chest that would have frightened her if she hadn't been sure of what it really was. She missed Stefan so desperately that she could hardly eat, could barely sleep. He was like a part of her mind that was constantly on fire, like a phantom limb that would never go away. Not even writing in her diary would help tonight. All she could write about were painfully tantalizing memories of the good times she and Stefan had shared together. How good it had been when she could just turn her head and know that she would see him – what a privilege that had been! And now it was gone, and in its place was racking confusion, guilt, and anxiety. What was happening to him, right now, when she no longer had the privilege of turning her head and seeing him? Were they†¦hurting him? Oh, God, if only†¦ If only I had made him lock all the windows to his room at the boardinghouse†¦ If only I had been more suspicious of Damon†¦ If only I had guessed he had something on his mind that last night†¦ If only†¦if only†¦ It became a pounding refrain in time to her heart. She found herself breathing in sobs, her eyes tightly shut, clutching the rhythm to her and clenching her fists. If I keep feeling this way – if I let it crush me enough – I'll become an infinitesimal point in space. I'll be crushed into nothingness – and even that will be better than needing him so much. Elena lifted up her head†¦and stared down at her head, resting on her diary. She gasped. Once more her first reaction was to imagine death. And then, slowly, because she was stupefied by so many tears, she realized that she'd done it again. She was out of her body. This time she wasn't even aware of a conscious decision about where to go. She was flying, so fast that she couldn't tell which way she was going. It was as if she were being pulled, as if she were the tail of a comet that was rapidly shooting downward. At one point she realized with familiar horror that she was passing through things, and then she was veering as if she were the end of the whip in a game of Crack the Whip and then she was catapulted into Stefan's cell. She was still sobbing as she landed in the cell, unsure of whether she had solid form or gravity, and uncaring for the moment. The only thing she had time to see was Stefan, very thin but smiling in his sleep and then she was dumped onto him, into him, and still crying as she bounced, as lightly as a feather, and Stefan woke. â€Å"Oh, can't you let me sleep for a few minutes in peace?† Stefan snapped, and added a couple of Italian words that Elena had never had reason to hear before. Elena had an immediate fit of the Bonnies, sobbing so hard that she couldn't listen to – couldn't even hear – any comfort that was on offer. They were doing horrible things to him, and they were using her image, Elena's, to do them. It was all too awful. They were conditioning Stefan to hate her. She hated herself. Everyone in the whole world hated her – â€Å"Elena! Elena, don't cry, love!† Dully, Elena lifted herself up, getting a brief anatomical view of Stefan's chest before she was sobbing again, trying to wipe her nose on Stefan's prison uniform, which looked as if it could only be improved by anything she might do to it. She couldn't, of course; just as she couldn't feel the arm that was trying to encircle her gently. She hadn't brought her body with her. But she had, somehow, brought her tears, and a cold, cable-wire-tough voice inside herself said, Don't waste them, idiot! Use those tears. If you're going to sob, sob over his face or his hands. And, by the way, everyone hates you. Even Matt hates you, and Matt likes everybody, the tiny cruel, productive voice went on and Elena gave way to a fresh gale of sobbing, absently noting the effect of each teardrop. Each drop turned the white skin under it pink and the color spread in ripples outward, as if Stefan were a pool, and she was resting on him, water on water. Except that her tears were falling so fast that it looked like a rainstorm on Wickery Pond. And that only made her think about the time that Matt had fallen into the pond, trying to rescue a little girl who had fallen through the ice, and how Matt hated her now. â€Å"Don't, oh don't; don't, lovely love,† Stefan begged, so sincerely that anyone would have believed he meant it. But how could he? Elena knew what she must look like, face swollen and blotched by tears: no â€Å"lovely love† here! And he'd have to be mad to want her to stop crying: the teardrops were giving him new life wherever they touched his skin – and perhaps the storm inside him had done best, because his telepathic voice was strong and sure. Elena, forgive me – oh, God, just give me one moment with her! Just a single moment! I can bear anything then, even the true death. Just one moment to touch her! And perhaps God did look down for a moment in pity. Elena's lips were hovering over, quivering over, Stefan's, as if she could somehow steal a kiss like this as she used to when he was still asleep. But for just an instant it seemed to Elena that she felt warm flesh below hers and the flick of Stefan's lashes against her eyelids as his eyes flew open in surprise. Instantly they both froze, eyes wide open, neither of them foolish enough to move in the slightest. But Elena couldn't help herself, as the flush of warmth from Stefan's lips sent a flush of warmth through her entire body. She melted into the kiss, and, while keeping her body carefully in the same position, felt her gaze go unfocused and her eyelids close. As her lashes swept against something with substance, the moment swept quietly to an end. Elena had two choices: she could shriek and rail telepathically at Il Signore for only giving them what Stefan had asked for, or she could gather her courage and smile and maybe comfort Stefan. Her better nature won out and when Stefan opened his eyes, she was leaning over him, pretending to be resting on her elbows and his chest, and smiling at him as she tried to straighten out her hair. Relieved, Stefan smiled back at her. It was as if he could bear anything, as long as she was unhurt. â€Å"Now, Damon would have been practical,† she teased him. â€Å"He would have kept me crying, because in the end, his health would be the most important thing. And he'd have prayed for†¦Ã¢â‚¬  She paused and finally began laughing, which made Stefan smile. â€Å"I have no idea,† Elena said finally. â€Å"I don't think Damon prays.† â€Å"Probably not,† Stefan said. â€Å"When we were young – and human – the town priest walked with a cane that he seemed to enjoy using on young delinquent boys more than as a source of support.† Elena thought of the delicate child chained to the huge and heavy boulder of secrets. Was religion one of the things locked away, put behind doors closed one after another in secret there, like a chambered nautilus until almost everything he cared about was inside? She didn't ask that of Stefan. Instead, she said, lowering her â€Å"voice† to the tiniest telepathic whisper, the barest disturbance of neurons in Stefan's receptive brain: What other practical things can you think of that Damon might have thought of? Things relating to a jailbreak? â€Å"Well†¦for a jailbreak? The first thing I can think of is for you to know your way around the city. I was brought here blindfolded but since they don't have the power to take the curse off vampires and make them human, I still had all my senses. I'd say it's a city about the size of New York and Los Angeles combined.† â€Å"Big city,† Elena noted, taking notes in her head. â€Å"But fortunately the only bits that would interest us are in the southwestern section. The city's supposed to be ruled by the Guardians – but they're from the Other Side and the demons and vampires here long ago realized that people were more afraid of them than the Guardians. It's set up now with about twelve to fifteen feudal castles or estates, and each of those estates has control of a considerable amount of land outside the city. They grow their own unique products and sell them in deals made here. For instance, it's the vampires who cultivate Clarion Loess Black Magic.† â€Å"I see,† said Elena, who had no idea what he was talking about, except the Black Magic wine. â€Å"But all we really need to know is how to get to the Shi no Shi – your prison.† â€Å"That's true. Well, the easiest way would be to find the kitsune sector. The Shi no Shi is a cluster of buildings, with the largest one – the one without a top, although it's curved, and you may not be able to tell from the ground – â€Å" â€Å"The one that looks like a coliseum?† Elena interrupted eagerly. â€Å"I get a sort of bird's-eye view of the city whenever I come here.† â€Å"Well, the thing that looks like a coliseum is a coliseum.† Stefan smiled. He really smiled; he's feeling well enough to smile, now, Elena rejoiced, but silently. â€Å"So to get you in and out, we just head from below the coliseum to the gate back to our world,† Elena said. â€Å"But to get you free there are – some things we need to collect – and those are probably going to be in different parts of the city.† She tried to remember if she had ever described the twin fox key to Stefan or not. It was probably better not to do it if she hadn't already done it. â€Å"Then I'd hire a native guide,† Stefan said immediately. â€Å"I don't really know anything about the city, except what the guards tell me – and I'm not sure if I would trust them. But the little people – the ordinary ones – will probably know the things you want to know.† â€Å"That's a good idea,† Elena said. She drew invisible designs with a transparent finger on his chest. â€Å"I think Damon really plans to do everything he can to help us.† â€Å"I honor him for coming,† Stefan said, as if he were thinking things out. â€Å"He's keeping his promise, isn't he?† Elena nodded. Deep, deep in her consciousness floated the thoughts: His word to me that he would take care of you. His word to you that he would take care of me. Damon always keeps his word. â€Å"Stefan,† she said, again in the innermost recesses of his mind, where she could share information – she hoped – in secret, â€Å"you should have seen him, really. When I did Wings of Redemption and every bad thing that had hardened him or made him cruel came undone. And when I did Wings of Purification and all the stone covering his soul came away in chunks†¦. I don't think you could imagine how he was. He was so perfect – and so new. And later when he cried†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Elena could feel inside Stefan three layers of emotion succeed one another almost instantaneously. Disbelief that Damon could cry, despite all that Elena had been telling him. Then, belief and astonishment as he absorbed her pictures and her memories. And finally, the need to console her as she stared at a Damon forever trapped in penitence. A Damon that would never exist again. â€Å"He saved you,† whispered Elena, â€Å"but he wouldn't save himself. He wouldn't even bargain with Shinichi and Misao. He just let them take all his memories of that time.† â€Å"Maybe it hurt too much.† â€Å"Yes,† said Elena, deliberately lowering her barriers so that Stefan could feel the hurt that the new and perfect creature she'd created had felt upon learning that he had committed acts of cruelty and treachery that – well, that would make the strongest soul flinch. â€Å"Stefan? I think he must feel very lonely.† â€Å"Yes, angel. I think you're right.† This time Elena thought a good deal longer before venturing, â€Å"Stefan? I'm not sure he understands what it's like to be loved.† And while he thought out his response, she was on tenterhooks. Then he said very softly, very slowly again, â€Å"Yes, angel. I think you're right.† Oh, she did love him. He always understood. And he was always most brave and gallant and trusting just when she needed him to be. â€Å"Stefan? Can I stay again tonight?† â€Å"Is it nighttime, lovely love? You can stay – unless They come to take me somewhere.† All at once Stefan was very solemn, holding her gaze. â€Å"But if They come – you'll promise me to leave then, won't you?† Elena looked straight into his green eyes and said, â€Å"If that's what you want, I'll promise.† â€Å"Elena? Do you†¦do you keep your promises or not?† Suddenly, he sounded very sleepy, but the right kind of sleepy, not worn out, but someone who has been refreshed and is being lulled into a perfect slumber. â€Å"I keep them close to me,† Elena whispered. But I keep you closer, she thought. If someone came to hurt him, they would find out what a bodiless opponent could do. For instance, what if she just reached inside their bodies and managed to make contact for an instant? Long enough to squeeze a heart between her pretty white fingers? That would be something. â€Å"I love you, Elena. I'm so glad†¦we kissed†¦Ã¢â‚¬  â€Å"It's not the last time! You'll see! I swear it!† She dropped new healing tears down on him. Stefan just smiled gently. And then he was asleep. In the morning Elena woke up in her grand bedroom in Lady Ulma's house, alone. But she had another memory, like a pressed rose, to put away in its own special place inside her. And somewhere, deep in her heart, she knew that these memories might be all she had of Stefan someday. She could imagine that these sweet-scented, fragile mementoes would be something to hold on to and cherish – if Stefan never came home.

Knowledge one of most valuable resources in organisations - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 6 Words: 1784 Downloads: 7 Date added: 2017/06/26 Category Management Essay Type Narrative essay Did you like this example? At the end of last century, hi-tech industries rose and impacted the traditional industries, and it changed the way of economy developed. Economies in western countries greatly rely on the producing and applying of knowledge. Knowledge becomes one of the most valuable resources in organisations as well as capital and human. Knowledgeable assets (intangible) slowly replace the physical assets (tangible), and become the main competitiveness of organisations. Therefore, knowledge management is now one of the most essential parts of the contemporary management study. There are plenty of literatures concerning knowledge management, the author summarised them and divided them into two parts, one is to research the knowledge management like knowledge management behaviours, the building of knowledge management models, and this part mainly focuses on theories; the other part is to analyse the using of knowledge management within companies daily practices like develop infor mation system or artifact intelligence system for the knowledge management field. Explanation about Knowledge management would be given which based on both theories and practices. It is difficult to give the knowledge management theories a summary, because there are too many different ideas in this field, the author found several definitions of knowledge management. However, a clue had already been sorted out for our readers. At the beginning, our readers should be clear about the definition of the knowledge itself. The knowledge was introduced by Polanyi (1958), in both tacit form and explicit form. Explicit knowledge can be easily understood, it is the knowledge which can be recorded and reviewed like data, documents, system and policies. In addition, from Hodgkin (1991), Tacit knowledge comprises a range of conceptual and sensory information and images that can be brought to bear in an attempt to make sense of something. In the daily life, staff can often contact the explicit knowledge as it can be easily discovered. Polanyi (1967) also stated that although human know a lot in their mind, they can hardly express all them out, which means it is difficult to convert tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. As it mentioned before, there are a lot of explanation about the knowledge management. The author would like to show readers some definitions from glossaries: The DOFA (Department of Finance and Administration) (2000) states a simple definition of knowledge management, which is Organising, sharing and applying knowledge through the support of people and technology. The UK design council (2009) gives a more detailed concept, which is The processes an organisation utilises to make full use of the information it holds by correlating separate sources and showing how they can be exploited. However, a more comprehensive and clear explanation of knowledge management is from London Imperial College (2009), which points out that it is the process of capturing, o rganising, and storing information and experiences of workers and groups within an organization and making it available to others. By collecting those artifacts in a central or distributed electronic environment (often in a database called a knowledge base), KM aims to help a company gain competitive advantage. Enterprises firstly introduced the concept of knowledge management, so the purpose they use knowledge management is to increase their competitiveness, and combine the purpose with the knowledge management from London Imperial College, it is a process of capturing, organising and using knowledge for the purpose of gain more competitiveness for organisations. Chor-Beng (2008) talked about the using knowledge management in organisations. He mainly introduced the integrity of knowledge management and customer relationship management. Actually he mentioned not only customer relationship management can be integrated with knowledge management, but also supply chain management (SCM), product development management (PDM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and retail network management (RNM) that offer different perspectives into knowledge management adoption. He imagined combining the components of knowledge management and other management together to help organisations be more competitive. The competition of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is fierce nowadays, and most SMEs would like to explore their E-businesses to gain more competitiveness. Juan et al (2007) made investigation regarding 107 SMEs in the Spanish telecommunications sector, and they discovered from the result that the requirement of build their own E-business system of SMEs is to provide and support the process to get, share and use knowledge. They also mentioned to learn from their suppliers and customers is necessary, because this can both test the effectiveness of E-businesses new ways and build the E-businesses which can satisfy the needs of customers. Maguire et al (2007) also have their opinions concerning the knowledge management and SMEs, but they focused on the gaining competitiveness of SMEs through knowledge management. They use the form of questionnaires and interviews to investigate over 200 firms (SMEs), and the bright side of this investigation is that 70% firms use ICT system to aid their work, but the problem is that they like to use ICT independently but not carry out the integrated and strategic approach in their use of ICT. Robertson (2001) made a comparative analysis between the Silicon Valley firms of USA and the Xerox China Limited of P.R.C. He get a conclusion as follows, for Xerox China Limited, is a higher perceived existence of rewards and incentives, knowledge flow, knowledge accessibility and learning process in addition to a higher perception of the importance of knowledge dissemination versus the Silicon Valley firms. In all other knowledge management areas, the Silicon Valley firms have higher levels of responses in the perceived existence and level of importance of knowledge management practices. Nielsen provided a case study concerning Siemens applying of knowledge management ShareNet. Siemens invested 1 billion dollar to shift itself into an E-driven company, which means Siemens want its all processes can be run electronically, both from procurement to marketing and development to controlling. The most exciting part of this shift is that it built its own E-knowledge management. In 1999, Siemens started to use its own internal knowledge management system ShareNet. ShareNet can control the transfer of knowledge through three processes which are capturing, developing and reusing of knowledge. Everyone in Siemens can get the information in this system from any places in the world. For instance, its sale representatives can get the up-to-date information at the right time. Enterprises would only consider the applying of knowledge management from the aspect of profit earning, however, knowled ge management does much more than just make profit for enterprises, the second part of knowledge management which readers cannot miss is its academic value from the points of views of scholars. Mentzas et al. (2003) described a knowledge management solution which named know-net, and it has three parts which are know-net framework (this framework is to build the conscious of knowledge management and to guarantee the complete of the effort of knowledge management), know-net method (ÃÆ' ¢Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ ¦helps organisations to develop their knowledge leveraging strategy and business processes and explicitly evaluate the business value of the knowledge management effortÃÆ' ¢Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ ¦), and know-net tools (use knowledge navigator to collect, organise and share corporate knowledge). Earl (1996) posited the knowledge into three levels, and these are science, judgement and experience. These three levels represent more and more structure, certainty and valid ation from experience to science. In addition, experience requires action and memory, judgement requires analysis and sensing, whilst science requires formulation and consensus. He also attempted a knowledge management model including four components, which are knowledge systems, networks, knowledge workers and learning organisations. The concept of learning organisations is quite essential because the author found that more and more would like to achieve it. Lehaney et al. (2004) discussed the relationship between the knowledge management and sociotechnical thinking in their book Beyond Knowledge Management because there is nearly no literature which can link these two concepts. They also described the knowledge management and learning organisations and discuss the future of knowledge management. Knowledge management also contributes to the government. In the article HOW KM IS TRANSFORMING THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT which published in Knowledge Management Review, Barquin (2008 ) pointed out that, it is good to see US federal government started to use e-government to serve the governed and the citizen, as it moved us closer to Abraham Lincolns envisaged government of the people, by the people and for the people. However, in order to maintain the service providing to citizen, a lot of data and information must be arranged, and it can be achieved through knowledge management. He also gave example of knowledge management applying in US federal government; National Housing Locator System (NHLS) can provide knowledge through the internet, which concerning available housing in specific areas of the country. AKO (Army Knowledge Online) supply army communicating with its troops, employees, contractors and dependents. In brief, because the knowledge management becomes more and more popular nowadays, human start to have more and more distinct conscious about it, and the research of knowledge management can reach nearly each tiny part of it. The researches for it usually go into two aspects. The first aspect of research is about the development of knowledge management by the timeline (or theories research). Scholars researched knowledge itself originally which includes its definition, features, different types and the using of knowledge. Then the large amount of using knowledge leads human to a new time, which is knowledge economy time, the researches started to shift into knowledge economy and mainly focused on its origin, definition and features instead. Because of the impact of the new knowledge economy, enterprises start to develop their own knowledge strategies, and then human started to research these companies which are pioneers in the knowledge management field. At last, they began to study the knowledge management like its development, concept, purpose, and implementation ways. The other aspect of research is about the connection or co-operation between knowledge management and other management like Human Resource Management, Inform ation System Management, Strategic Management and RD Management (practice research). Readers should want to know the practice of knowledge management in enterprises, unfortunately, only some famous international enterprises get success in the field of knowledge management practice. In fact, knowledge management is still not playing a vital role in most businesses like SMEs because there is no authoritative or mature knowledge management model so far, different companies have their different ideas of using knowledge management, and this made other companies hard to follow and improve their own, most SMEs are still wait and see if there are any methods they can simulate to apply the knowledge management. Some companies have their knowledge management system, but they cannot connect it to other system like human resource. These situations indicate that it is a long way to go for knowledge management to be mature to serve enterprises. Fortunately, enterprises realized the importance of knowledge management practice, and they started to invest more resources into it to make it more effective to the business. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "Knowledge one of most valuable resources in organisations" essay for you Create order