A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management

Management of organizational Knowledge is considered crucial in the present knowledge era. As a result, organizational readiness for knowledge management (KM) has been studied comprehensively from diverse viewpoints lately. KM enablers such as organizational culture, organizational structure and inf...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen, Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman, Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General)
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spelling	iium-504702018-05-23T02:06:56Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50470/ A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Management of organizational Knowledge is considered crucial in the present knowledge era. As a result, organizational readiness for knowledge management (KM) has been studied comprehensively from diverse viewpoints lately. KM enablers such as organizational culture, organizational structure and information technology infrastructures, and organizational members’ perception towards KM are assumed to be the predictors of KM readiness. Nevertheless, those dimensions could be part of KM readiness rather than just merely being its predictors considering the inevitable nature of those variables for KM implementation. Accordingly, the current study hypothesis that these factors with behavioral intention of organizational members form a holistic dimension of organizational readiness for KM. To verify this claim a questionnaire based survey was conducted among 313 executives in the Sri Lankan telecommunication industry. To validate the research instruments used a first order measurement model was formulated using AMOS version 16. Then, to test hypotheses a second order analysis was performed. The indices for model fit are good and the structural coefficients are significant showing the data fit to the model. Hence, the present work recommends that the KM enablers, organizational members’ perception and their behavioral intentions can be the dimensions of organizational readiness for KM 2016-04-19 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50470/3/SOSHUM_2016_%28IREP%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50470/9/50470_edited.pdf Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen and Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim and Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman and Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian (2016) A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management. In: 2016 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSHUM 2016), 19th–21st April 2016, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished) https://soshum.com/
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
description	Management of organizational Knowledge is considered crucial in the present knowledge era. As a result, organizational readiness for knowledge management (KM) has been studied comprehensively from diverse viewpoints lately. KM enablers such as organizational culture, organizational structure and information technology infrastructures, and organizational members’ perception towards KM are assumed to be the predictors of KM readiness. Nevertheless, those dimensions could be part of KM readiness rather than just merely being its predictors considering the inevitable nature of those variables for KM implementation. Accordingly, the current study hypothesis that these factors with behavioral intention of organizational members form a holistic dimension of organizational readiness for KM. To verify this claim a questionnaire based survey was conducted among 313 executives in the Sri Lankan telecommunication industry. To validate the research instruments used a first order measurement model was formulated using AMOS version 16. Then, to test hypotheses a second order analysis was performed. The indices for model fit are good and the structural coefficients are significant showing the data fit to the model. Hence, the present work recommends that the KM enablers, organizational members’ perception and their behavioral intentions can be the dimensions of organizational readiness for KM
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian
author_facet	Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen Nor Shahriza, Abdul Karim Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman Mohamad Ali, Noor Azian
author_sort	Mohamed Razi, Mohamed Jalaldeen
title	A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
title_short	A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
title_full	A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
title_fullStr	A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
title_full_unstemmed	A holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
title_sort	holistic approach to measure organizational readiness for knowledge management
publishDate	2016
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