Knowing Dowing Gap

The knowing doing gap is a major problem that faces most of the organizations, not only in Egypt, but also allover the world. Is the knowing doing gap really a problem? Yes, it's a problem, and actually it can be a very serious and destructive problem that will have severe consequences, that will shackle the progress of any organization.

The knowing doing gap have a lot of consequences that ends by the deterioration of the organization. One of those consequences is that the company fails in coping with any rapid changes that happens in the environment. Also it stops the people from turning the knowledge and decisions taken into action, which ends by having a lot of wonderful plans, and theories that are never used by the organization. Sometimes, we find that delaying an action may lead to the loss of some opportunities that are offered to the organization and need a quick decision to be taken. There are a lot of causes that makes a manager falls in the knowing doing gap. One of these causes is that the managers and the highly edu

In the Egyptian environment we find that the knowing doing gap is widely spread between its organizations. The knowing doing gap is not that sort of problem that could be solved by using two or three procedures that are going to be done in an organization. To overcome this gap the organization should have some guidelines that will help in turning knowledge into action. One of those guidelines is that managers should use the philosophy of 'why' not only 'how' which means that managers should choose between alternatives by knowing why to choose each of them not to look for the way it will be done.

cated people are never trained to be managers; they only studied it in lectures and books. In those lectures and studies they were taught how to talk smartly and the person is given the grade for his achievements in writing good ideas with complex and complicated words. Lack of practical training, and human nature makes managers tend to let talk substitute for action as talk carries less risk. Other causes that may lead to the emergence of the knowing doing gap are the lack of "fast track" programs that ensure the implementation of decisions; managers sometimes do not say what they mean, in other occasions they have trouble implementing what they say, also poor communication between different departments in the same organization.

The first of these reasons is the information factor. In the rational model information on the problem and on all alternative courses of action is available through different routes of information gathering, while in the Carnegie model limited information is available; this availability of information in the rat

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