Factors Associate with Knowledge Sharing Among Nurses in Maldives

FACTORS ASSOCIATE WITH KNOWLEDGE SHARING

AMONG NURSES IN MALDIVES

Introduction

This chapter describes and discusses the overall research design with

methodological approaches, such as population and sampling method, research

instrument, pilot study, data collection and data analysis. In general this chapter

covers the discussion on the processes and procedures that were selected to attain the

appropriate analysis for the gathered data.

The main intention of this research is to find the important factors that

facilitate knowledge sharing among nurses in Maldives. To obtain broad and indepth

data, four main hospitals located in the capital city of Maldives were selected.

Respondents were selected from the nurses working in these four hospitals; Indhira

Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), ADK hospital, Hulhumale’ hospital and

Villingili hospital.

Research Design

This research was guided by the specific problem situation in Chapter 1,

literature review with previous researches in Chapter 2 and the framework developed

for this study. Based on the research objectives and research questions mentioned in

the previous chapters, the survey method was selected. This is one of the most

appropriate methods that can be used for a research containing questions about

beliefs, attitudes and emotions (Gavin, 2008), opinion, behavior and demographic

data. According to Fowler (1988), this method allows the researcher to obtain a

standardized measurement that is consistent across all the respondents and ensures

comparable information about everyone involved in the study.

Since the respondents are in Maldives, other than survey method may be

expensive and time consuming choice for the researcher. According to Babbie (1992)

b, survey research design is highly reliable, low costly and time effective.

Population and Sample

This study was conducted among nurses in four hospitals located in the

capital city of Maldives- Male’. The hospitals selected are ADK...