Knowledge Management: Practice and Performance of Ngos in Maldives

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Knowledge management: Practice and

performance of NGO in Maldives

Safa , Mohammad Samaun; Shakir, Fazna and Boon, Ooi

Keng

School of Business and Research Centre, Binary University

College, Malaysia, Society for Health Education, Maldives,

Business and Advanced Technology Centre, Universiti

Teknologi Malaysia

15. July 2006

Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10756/

MPRA Paper No. 10756, posted 25. September 2008 / 15:05M. S. Safa et al. / Knowledge Management Practices of NGO in Maldives

International Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship, 2(1): 69-86, 2006 69

Knowledge Management: Practice and

Performance of NGO in Maldives

*Mohammad Samaun Safaa

, Fazna Shakir

b

Ooi Keng Boonc

aSchool of Business and Research Centre, Binary University College, Malaysia

bSociety for Health Education, Maldives

c

Business and Advanced Technology Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

*Corresponding author

Email address: dearsafa@gmail.com

Available online at

www.binaryalpha.edu.my/research-ctr

ISSN No. 1823-3538

Abstract

Knowledge Management (KM) is an emerging concept in the field of

management and widely adopted in organizations of the developed

countries for enhancing organizational performance. This study

discusses the KM practices of non-governmental organization (NGO)

such as Society for Health Education (SHE), one of the leading NGOs

in Maldives. The study further focuses on the linkage between KM

practices and culture, strategy, information technology and training of

SHE. The Sample size of the study is 130, which has been collected by

using simple random sampling technique and analyzed using statistical

tools. The findings show that KM practices are not linked institutionally

to the above components whereas the awareness of KM can be

moderately seen. SHE is potential to improve adoption of KM for better

organizational performance....