Title: Well-being of all stakeholders in higher education - from knowledge management to knowledge-cum-values management

Authors: Simona Šarotar Žižek; Matjaž Mulej; Sonja Treven; Martina Vaner

Addresses: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Razlagova 14 Maribor, SI 2000, Slovenia ' Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Razlagova 14 Maribor, SI 2000, Slovenia ' Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Razlagova 14 Maribor, SI 2000, Slovenia ' Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Razlagova 14 Maribor, SI 2000, Slovenia

Abstract: Application of one's knowledge depends on one's values. Tendency to see knowledge separated from values prevents requisite holism, including in higher education (HE); one-sidedness causes oversights diminishing success and well-being of humans. HE-organisations create innovations and require requisite holism therefore; HE should view humans' multilayered attributes. HE stakeholders of, too, are multilayered individuals. Their success depends on their consciousness helping them attain more holism increasing their subjective well-being. This also increases creativity and innovation of employees in HE; it improves educational and research quality, which improves income and lowers costs of organisations due to values. Knowledge management must become requisitely holistic knowledge-cum-values-management.

Keywords: management in education; well-being; requisite holism; higher education; knowledge management; knowledge-cum-values management; KVM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2014.062958

International Journal of Management in Education, 2014 Vol.8 No.3, pp.225 - 243

Published online: 26 Jul 2014 *

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