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IJSTR >> Volume 8 - Issue 12, December 2019 Edition



International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research  
International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research

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ISSN 2277-8616



Knowledge Sharing Factors: Perception Between Junior And Senior Academicians In Malaysian University

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AUTHOR(S)

Norazila Mat, Jamsari Alias, Nur Atiqah Abdullah, Zaleha Yazid, Nazri Muslim

 

KEYWORDS

knowledge sharing, organizational factors, technological factors, individual factors, academicians, Malaysian University, Research University.

 

ABSTRACT

Healthy competitions between Malaysian University to achieve the higher ranking throughout the globe provide an interesting background for a research to understand how they practices knowledge sharing (KS) among their academicians to gain competitive advantages. Plenty have been discussed on knowledge sharing but comprehensive understanding of knowledge sharing between academicians especially in regards to different seniority has been less mentioned. This study aimed to identify the comparison between junior and senior academicians on three knowledge sharing driver factors; organizational factor, technological factor and individual factor. This study is carried out with a set of survey among academicians in a Research University (RU) in Malaysia. Results from this study shows that top management under organizational factor and knowledge self-efficacy under individual factor are the most important factor that motivate KS for both junior and senior academicians. Senior academicians also agree that system infrastructure under technological factor is also crucial in knowledge sharing. These findings conclude that the strength of knowledge sharing in RU strives from its top management as well as individual factors in academicians but improvements can be made in areas such as organizational rewards and system quality where both junior and senior academicians only moderately agree that they are important factors in knowledge sharing.

 

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