Criteria | Relative weight |
Existing corporate culture does not provide sufficient support for sharing practices | 0.23 |
Insufficient capture, evaluation, feedback, communication, and tolerance of past mistakes that would enhance individual and organizational learning effects | 0.18 |
Lack of leadership and managerial direction in terms of clearly communicating the benefits and values of knowledge sharing practices | 0.16 |
Differences in education levels | 0.08 |
External competitiveness within business units or functional areas and between subsidiaries can be high (e.g. not invented here syndrome) | 0.08 |
Not keeping skillful and experienced employee | 0.07 |
Apprehension of fear that sharing may reduce or jeopardize people’s job security | 0.06 |
Not welcoming new ideas, shortage of formal and informal spaces to share, reflect and generate (new) knowledge | 0.05 |
Lack of transparent rewards and recognition systems that would motivate people to share more of their knowledge | 0.04 |
Gender differences | 0.04 |