A situational example of a team putting knowledge to practice through knowledge adaptation is:
A)a manager discovers,by lots of personal research,that his department has created a new type of adhesive that is not sticky when wet but very sticky when dry.The manager challenges himself and his employees to improvise fixes to an employee's broken bicycle with this product.
B)a manager challenges the use of a newly developed fixture at her departmental status meeting.This manager pushes the fixture design department to keep refining the design with new parameters in mind.
C)in order to shorten his team's R&D phase,a manager visits the company archives and researches past formulas that led to unsuccessful results.
D)a manager finds out that their newest product is not doing well in the market.He pushes the team to take a new look at their product research,and make changes to the product based on the team expanding their knowledge of marketplace trends.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

In this situation, the manager is using the newly acquired knowledge about the properties of the adhesive and applying it in a practical way by challenging the team to use it to fix a broken bicycle. This demonstrates knowledge adaptation, where the team is adapting their knowledge to a new situation and learning through experimentation. The other options do not demonstrate clear examples of knowledge adaptation in practice.

A Situational Example of a Team Putting Knowledge to Practice