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interact, exchange ideas and share knowledge with one another.
Not only this, collaboration has been empirically shown to be
a significant contributor to knowledge creation.
Trust is also another fundamental aspect of a knowledge friendly
culture. Without a high degree of mutual trust, people will be
sceptical about the intentions and behaviours of others and thus,
they will likely withhold their knowledge. Building
a relationship of trust between individuals and groups will help
to facilitate a more proactive and open knowledge sharing
process.
Besides this, there is a need to foster and innovative culture in
which individuals are constantly encouraged to generate new
ideas, knowledge and solutions. Likewise, Goh (2002) suggested
a culture which emphasises problem seeking and solving. This
reques also respect of all individuals. Individuals should also be
permitted to query existing practice and to take actions through
empowerment. By empowering individuals, they will have more
freedom and opportunities to explore new possibilities and
approaches. Equally important is the element of openness
whereby mistakes are openly shared without the fear of
punishment. In this respect, reasonable mistakes and failures are
not only tolerated but allowed and forgive. Making mistakes
should be viewed as an investment process in individuals
because it can be a key source of learning.
3 Conclusions
Corporations that are successful in knowledge management
consider knowledge as corporate property and develop corporate
rules and values to support its production and sharing. Critical
success factors of knowledge management system
implementation that were identified in this study are: corporate
culture dimension. The key elements of corporate culture, which
support knowledge sharing, were in our research identified as
trust and collaboration. The corporate culture can be understood
as a system of collective thinking which differentiates one group
from another. It integrates everything that has a certain value: the
style of leadership, the symbols, the norms that are shared by the
members of that corporation and which are considered definitive,
the goals that have to be attained and the way this should be
done, in a few words, it integrates everything that defines the
success of corporation. In this respect, it is necessary for
managers to discuss themes related to business processes in their
meetings and to disseminate among employees a vision of the
company as a set of interconnected processes that must work in
harmony with the strategic goals. In other words, the
departmental objectives should be in line with those of the
corporation as a whole. The findings of this article support the
argument, that building knowledge management in organization
is possible only by creating knowledge culture, which is based
principally on the trust. As to knowledge culture, an attitude of
organization members to knowledge, significance of its transfer
to the organization is important. Behaviour of organization
members, formed by knowledge culture, will determine whether
knowledge is shared or not. There are many other questions,
which are related with building a corporate culture supporting
knowledge management such as: how human resource
management affects the building of a corporate culture, how
leadership style, how size of organization, scope of business and
under. These questions can be an inspiration for further research.
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