Knowledge sharing barriers between generation in Thai organization

Abstract

The length of employment life for younger generation is getting shorten nowadays. One of the major reasons is due to the conflict or difficulty to work in the organization especially for those strong culture nations like Asian countries. Thailand is one of the nations that employees have difficult time to work with others. So the Thai organization must try to find a suitable solution that would help maintain and attract new employees to stay with them as long as possible because hiring new employees every one to two years can be costly. Along with the organizations cannot retrieve the best performances out from those employees. Currently, many Thai organizations do not pay much attention to “knowledge transfer / sharing”. This lack of attentions causes the “knowledge sharing barriers (KSBs) to build up within the organization such as conflicts between employees, no employees’ improvements, shorter employee lifetime with the organization, etc. This paper will help identify the knowledge sharing barriers in Thai organizations and verifying the causes of those existing barriers as well as the suitable solutions to help reducing those barriers by using qualitative research method and collect data from top managements from the sample organization. KEY WORDS: Knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing, knowledge sharing barriers