Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 104 === In the time of knowledge management and lifelong learning, a leader of active aging and learning center must constantly learn and develop the ability on knowledge management in order to lead a team to provide elderly people an environment of practicing lifelong learning. In view of this, this study was designed to investigate the status of active aging and learning center leaders’ knowledge management capability and the capacity of lifelong learning; meanwhile, it is to analyze the relationship between background variables and the degree of influence between the two. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, a method of questionnaire is used in this study.With the directors of all active aging and learning centers in Taiwan as the study objects, a total of 301 questionnaires were sent out and 234 valid questionnaires were retrieved. The recovery rate was 77.7%.SPSS Statistics 20 statistical software was used as tools to analyze the resulting survey data for descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, one-way analysis of variance, and Pearson product moment correlation statistical analysis. The obtained conclusions are as follows :
1.The directors of active aging and learning centers possess medium to high degree of knowledge management capability. Among the capabilities they have, the directors show the highest degree of "knowledge and information gathering" capability; yet they also show capability on "knowledge and information organizing" and "knowledge and information sharing" should be enhanced.
2.The directors of active aging and learning centers possess high degree of lifelong learning capability. Among the capabilities they have, the directors show the highest degree of "learning to change" ability; yet they show "learning to do" capability should be enhanced..
3.Female leaders show better performance in "knowledge and information gathering;" those ages between 51–60 with a service experience of 3-4 years and training of more than 4 times show better capability of knowledge management.
4.Those directors of active aging and learning centers with ages between 51 – 60 and a service experience of 3-4 years show a better capability of lifelong learning.
5.There is a positive correlation between the knowledge management capability and lifelong learning capability among the directors of active aging and learning centers.
This study, by using the above conclusions, provides specific suggestions for the related government agencies and directors of active aging and learning centers.
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