Browsing by Author "Weckström, Marika"

Teamwork as a method is very common among employees. Working together and achieving goals craves a lot of communication and knowledge sharing among colleagues. When working with people, it is fact that there are many different personalities and communication habits. Purpose of this study was to examine how knowledge is created in teamwork. The process of the knowledge creation was examined through communication and knowledge sharing among team members. Purpose of this study was to bring up the problem points in this team and through that develop knowledge sharing and make teamwork more effective. The theoretical framework of this study concentrates to examine Nonaka and Takeuchi's (1995) theory of knowledge creation through knowledge conversion, but phenomenon is examined also through other researchers point of view. Results are viewed through this knowledge conversion model. The data was collected from one company's team in October-November 2015. Team members answered to a questionnaire and wrote down memories about their knowledge sharing. I also interviewed eight team members and observed two team meetings. In this team they are communicating a lot, but still there are problems with the knowledge sharing. Team is split in to two different teams, where only one half gets all the information and also shares it. Part of the team members feels that they cannot openly communicate with other team members and cannot bring up development ideas, which affects to knowledge creation. The results show that there is problem with the knowledge sharing between researcher and some research assistants.