Knowledge Sharing Among Malaysian Smart School Teachers
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2015-05
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GUAN GAN, GOH
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The smart school project was mooted as one of the flagship applications for Malaysia’s
bold Vision 2020 national development objectives aimed at achieving a developed
nation status by 2020. Due to the rapid changes faced by the education sector, the smart
school teachers need to constantly enhance and update their knowledge function
effectively in the smart schools. However, it has been found that the level of knowledge
sharing among smart school teachers is low and this leads to problems in realising the
objectives of the smart school project. Therefore, there is a need to examine the lack of
knowledge sharing of these teachers. Hence, the key aim of this study is to identify the
reasons why teachers do not share knowledge among themselves from the perspective of
the knowledge being transmitted, the knowledge creation processes used and the factors
influencing knowledge sharing. The study utilised an exploratory multiple case study
design method to collect the data from a total of seven smart schools involving eighty
three interview respondents. Based on the analysis of the data gathered from the case
studies, it is revealed that the characteristics of the knowledge being shared and received
during the knowledge sharing process influences the decision of both the sharer and
receiver on whether to share or receive the knowledge. In addition, the knowledge
creation process that is most common is the combination while the least common mode
is the socialisation. The factors influencing knowledge sharing were identified as
leadership, kiasuism, ICT tools, social network and T-shaped skills. This therefore
indicates that the smart schools need to enhance on their knowledge creation modes to
further encourage knowledge sharing among its teachers.
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Knowledge Sharing , Among Malaysian Smart School Teachers