Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing Culture among Postgraduates

Abstract

Abstract Knowledge sharing is important aspects in organization or education in ensuring knowledge can be transfer to one another. Culture seems to give an impact on this practice. However, due to limited studies in Malaysia, this research is carried out to study the factors influencing knowledge sharing culture in an educational institution. This research emphasis the factors of communication, motivation and trust., This research adopted quantitative survey as methodology gathering data and the data was using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). All the hypotheses tested were accepted. Communication and motivation is the main factors students sharing information while trust is really need to have before students share. The findings suggested that the addition of communication skills, rewards and motivation with trusted build would elevate the students’ sharing skills as well as the influence in it has on the overall performance of Information Management students.