Factors for influence: Organizational context and leadership in recorded information management

The population which most directly impacts corporate information is that which must: (1) identify information as it is generated and received, (2) assess its value as related to business functions, (3) express that value as a measure of time over which the information shall exist, (4) render it retrievable through performing a range of technical functions, and finally, (5) determine its disposition. These are records management practitioners.;This study involves this selected subset of knowledge workers, people who have chosen to work in the field of recorded information management as records management practitioners. The study seeks to illuminate leadership attributes of records management practitioners and characteristics of the organizational contexts within which they work. Representative models drawn from the lived experience of records management practitioners establish a profile for the optimal RIM program, its organizational context and records management practitioner attributes.;The outcome is a profile of attributes and elements that may guide records management practitioners in two areas: (1) self-development for career growth and personal satisfaction, and (2) selection of corporate environments for opportunities to engage meaningfully in developing organizational capacity to manage knowledge resources. The profile consists of findings detailed in Chapter Four of this study. The findings have additional value for corporate leaders seeking to exploit the potential of RIM and encourage the recruitment and retention of RIM practitioners who risk excellence. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).