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FACTORS INFLUENCING INTENTION TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE IN AN ORGANIZATION Background of Study In a growing organization, knowledge sharing is very important where it will lead to reduced mistakes, allow quick resolution, allow quick problem solving, quicken the learning process and importantly all this will lead towards cost saving. In the current fast moving situation where mergers, acquisitions and Technologies or product transfer from USA to Asian countries like Malaysia, China and India, information is an important asset for companies to ensure products are transferred smoothly and learning process to be shortened. Preserving and sharing of information is very important to remain competitive in changing landscape of the increasingly globalized business world. The information intensive organizations have revolutionized economics and industry as much, the inventions that led to the industrial revolution in the Eighteenth Century. Another key element is people need to work smarter instead of working harder. Many companies today are beginning to feel that information of their employees is very important and it is an asset that cannot be purchased using money. Information is a personal capability like skills, experience people learn and intelligence to make judgments. This capability can be acquired by an individual as a result of seeing, listening to or feeling (physically or emotionally) something. What a person reads, sees, hears or feels is not the information; rather it is the medium through which information may be transferred. Research Problem Individuals do not share knowledge without personal benefits. Personal belief can change individual's thought of benefit and having self satisfaction will encourage knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing not only save employer and employee's time (Gibbert and Krause, 2002) but doing so in an organizational setting results in the classic public good dilemma (Barry and Hardin, 1982; Marwell and Oliver, 1983). Lack of sufficient rewards has been known to be common barrier for knowledge sharing. Kalling and Styhe (2003) commented the relative lack of attention given for motivational factors that can influence knowledge sharing in the literature. Thus this research endeavors to study the factors that may lead to knowledge sharing in an organization. Research Objectives
The main objective of this research is to identify factors influencing the intention to share knowledge. Thus it hopes to achieve the following objectives: 1. 2. To understand or to gauge the behavioral intention to share information in an organization, To model the impact of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control on the intention to share knowledge among employees in an organization.