Towards an instrument for surveying knowledge management practices

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
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Title Towards an instrument for surveying knowledge management practices
 
Creator Botha, D. F.
 
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Description The research was conducted to develop and stabilize a data collection and analysis instrument for an annual survey of knowledge management practices in the South African business sector. From a literature study it was deduced that six factors could be identified with necessary and sufficient reason to be used as main parameters for the assessment instrument. Synthesized a priori and posteriori judgmental knowledge was used to construct a number of aggregational indicators for each factor. Each indicator posited as a statement being a recognized knowledge management practice. A modified six point Likert scale was created to score/indicate gradual progression towards full implementation of a specific practice. Regression factor analysis and one-way analysis of variance was used on the collected data to evaluate the instrument. These analyses indicated that the instrument could detect the expected differences on the demographics and on the KM practices of the survey and could therefore be declared sound and verified. The analyses also revealed several modifications that could be used to improve the instrument.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2005-03-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v36i1.615
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 36, No 1 (2005); 1-6 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 D. F. Botha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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