| Abstract [eng] |
Modern society has been undergoing transformation into a new harmonious, environmentally friendly society, with the aim of providing the mankind with possibilities to create a safer, healthier and more prosperous world with continuous education and learning, new knowledge, values, attitudes and a need to know, to comprehend ant to act meaningfully and responsibly. Sustainable development requires a constant change which is determined not only by individual capabilities, but also by regulation of social and economic development and its ensuring at the state and organisational levels. Application of knowledge management to the implementation of objective of sustainable development places great emphasis on intellectual capital, creativity, innovations encouraging the sharing of experience, ensures the interaction of technologies, talents and tolerance beneficial for an organization and the whole economy, culture of life-long learning. The article analyzes sustainable development as the main, long-term interaction of the societal development ideology with knowledge management. It points out that knowledge, experience, competence, civic responsibility give reasons for compliance with environmental, social and economic requirements of sustainable development. It has been noticed that one of the ways to study a cognitive dimension of sustainable development is through contemplation about the development as a social process of learning which helps people to control an individual level their personal experience of sustainable development by independently applying it to problem solution and shaping their own future. At an organisational level, intelectual knowledge of employees are transformed into a competitive advantage of the organisation by applying the measures and methods of knowledge management. |
