Human resource management practices associated with knowledge sharing at the higher education institutions.

Abstract

The present study is design to determine whether the human resource management (HRM) practices have an association or relationship with knowledge sharing (KS) among academics at the higher education institutions. For the purpose of this study, the HRM practices included are training, compensation, and staffing. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was applied to examine the data collected from 69 academics at the College of Business in University of Jeddah via questionnaire. The results indicated that training, compensation, and staffing showed an association with knowledge sharing among academics and all three practices significantly associated with knowledge sharing. This study provides two contributions. First, it reveals that the selected HRM practices impact knowledge sharing among academics at the College of Business. Second, since there is not abundant research about the HRM practices and knowledge sharing at universities, this research enriches the literature of HRM practices and  knowledge sharing at the higher education institutions. Future research can examine the relationship between HRM practices such as human resource planning, performance evaluation, teamwork, and knowledge sharing. In addition, a future study may investigate the level of sharing knowledge between male and female at the higher education institutions.