The Intellectual Capital of Schools: Measuring and Managing Knowledge, Responsibility and Reward. Lessons from the Commercial Sector

by Kelly, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781402019357
• ISBN10: 1402019351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book is an attempt to describe a school's potential for improvement in new intrinsic terms ... in terms of its internal intellectual capital; the resource that comes from relationships between the school and its stakeholders, from its ability to innovate and manage change, from its infrastructure, and from the knowledge and transferable competencies of its staff. Intellectual capital is at the core of what society deems to be the purpose and definition of successful schooling, and being largely internal, promises maximum leverage in the search for improvement.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction to the concept of intellectual capital

Introduction

The post-industrial business environment Managing intellectual capital A theory of intellectual capital for schools Summary

Constructing a typology for intellectual capital

Introduction

Thinking capital

Non-thinking capital

Flows of intellectual capital

New language; new measures

Summary

The measurement of responsibility

Introduction

Job descriptions for salaried jobs

The measurement of responsibility

Manual and hourly-rated work

The totality of work Summary

A new Profile Guide Chart method for job evaluation in schools Introduction A Profile Guide Chart method for use in schools

The scales on the Guide Charts Post evaluation cross checks and correlation

Examples of evaluation using Guide Charts

Summary

Pay and incentives in an education setting

Introduction Performance related pay for teachers: moral hazard, adverse selection and principal-agent resistance

Conflict between the individual and the collective Paying employees on the basis of output Summary

The retention of intellectual capital: managing continuity Introduction Conceptualising knowledge continuity management

Challenges to knowledge continuity The benefits of knowledge continuity management Knowledge continuity management in practice Summary

Implementing a knowledge continuity initiative: an adjunct of lessons from practice

Introduction

Prioritising critical processes Mapping critical processes

The knowledge continuity audit and implementing a continuity initiative

The value of networks and team-working to knowledge continuity management

Reshaping an organisation as a network of teams

Supporting networking within and between schools

Barriers to intellectual capital networking and knowledge continuity management

Observations on team networking in intellectual capital schools

Summary

Intellectual capital metrics

Introduction

Gauging the organisational importance of intellectual capital

Identifying and analysing intangible assets

Exploiting intangible assets

Measuring the efficiency of knowledge work and knowledge workers

Putting a value on intellectual capital

Summary

Conclusion

Appendix: Two-sided mixed-motive games of strategy: four archetypes

Bibliography

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