Why Employee Fail at work place knowledge sharing

 

When describe the Knowledge management it is one of the most crucial yet overlooked aspects of progress of the workplace. Organizational employees fail to get access to the knowledge organization has to suffer. Knowledge sharing has more benefits to the organization. Some of them are increase productivity, trust among employees, social interaction etc. It's great for nurturing the organization's knowledge bank so everyone can access it even as people come and go (Aiim, 2021).

Reasons to fail knowledge sharing:

·       Poor training and development policies of the organization – As an organization need to give relative training to employees to increase their technical knowledge and other skills of the employees. Once offer the training need to develop those skills. But organization have no proper policies regarding the employee training and development it will lead to poor knowledgeable employees 

·       There are no good platforms to encourage good communication within the relative parties of the organization

·       Not introducing education opportunities to employees to develop their career and knowledge level

·       There is no knowledge sharing culture and activities within the organization

·       Employees not encouraging do a team works and they do not trust each other

·       No time to share knowledge or discuss with others

·       Employees consider as knowledge is the most powerful thing and they feel it will not share with us they can be best among others

(“6 Reasons Employees Fail at Workplace Knowledge Sharing | SkyPrep,” 2017)

Effects of Lack of knowledge sharing among employees

There are some effects can identify when observe the situations of different companies. Some of common effects can be identify as below,

·       Lack of communication leads to misunderstanding and among team members, managers and owners

·       On the other hand, this condition missed more opportunities to employees and also the organization

·       There are unnecessary conflicts

·       It will lead to mistrust each other

·       This will lead to the law of moral of the employees

·       Once employees are not with good knowledge customers are not satisfy with their services especially this is a hotel and customer expect good service from there. (Houlis, 2019)

Example Plan to improve Knowledge provided to the Team:

As a human resource manager author is collected the information regarding this issue by observation and also interviewing the employees and also managers of the organization. Then get the idea current situation then introduce some suggestions to improve the knowledge, skills and communication of the employees.

·       Establish good training and development policy to the organization

When developing the good training and development policy to the organization need to follow below things.

ü  Need to identify the training needs of the employees. It will be done by using the survey and also observation the roles of employees

ü  Identify what are the training programmes need to offer the employees (as example orientation programme once recruit the employees, health and safety training, team building training, training to improve the technical knowledge, how to deal with customers and other core-workers etc)

ü  Need to make a time frame to training programmes to a whole year

ü  Need to identify resource person to the programmes

ü  Once deliver the training need to get the feedbacks

ü  Then analysis the feedbacks and need to done necessary changes according to the feedbacks

 

·       Need to establish a good communication system within the organization and develop communication skills of the employees and also told to employees what the importance of the good communication system is.

ü  Able to introduce weekly meeting system within the departments

ü  Encourage to talk with each other not only email culture

·       Develop a knowledge sharing culture within the organization

ü  Arrange knowledge sharing sessions by using resource persons

ü  Offer education programmes to the employees

·       Encourage teamwork and develop a team-building culture within the organization

ü  Give team targets to the employees

ü  Encourage to do teamwork

Reference:

AIIM (2021). Knowledge Sharing: 5 Strategies to Share Knowledge In the Workplace. [online] info.aiim.org. Available at: https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/knowledge-sharing-strategies-for-the-workplace.