Knowledge management fatigue syndrome in higher education
- ASCI: Journal of Management
- 50(2), Sep, 2021: p.65-74
Higher education students have been subjected to intense pressure from the education sector to acquire more knowledge every day owing to the increasing competition in the job market. If not processed, utilized and managed properly, knowledge can lead to a chronic condition, which is nowadays referred to as Knowledge Management Fatigue Syndrome. The abundance of knowledge constantly increases with progressing generations and becomes a common occurrence across every profession and aspect of life. Improper management of excess accessible knowledge can lead to various serious conditions that might hamper the wellbeing of individuals and bring down their academic performance too.Nowadays, students have been facing difficulty in retaining information in their long-term memory and suffering from knowledge gaps in terms of recall. This article intends to put forward research questions like how the knowledge management fatigue syndrome 1) creates an impact on the academics and guides a student’s holistic outlook towards life, 2) brings about a significant influence in the e-learning sectors of higher education, 3) helps to analyse the chronic problems faced by the students of higher education in terms of psychological, emotional and physiological aspects. 4) can be explored and analysed through a self-proposed model. All these questions have been addressed throughout the study and explained in the form of various established models and knowledge management frameworks. Analysis of literature establishes that, knowledge management fatigue syndrome is a chronic issue among the students and scholars who have been undertaking higher education and requires serious management techniques that would help them channelize and process the acquired knowledge systematically, which does not lead to mental fatigue and burnout. This review-based research article also provides scope for further research in this field. – Reproduced