Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia

Teklit Gebretsadik; Gebremeskel Mirutse; Kidane Tadesse; Wondwossen Terefe

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Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia

Teklit Gebretsadik, Gebremeskel Mirutse, Kidane Tadesse, Wondwossen Terefe

Published in American Journal of Health Research (Volume 2, Issue 5)

Received: 20 August 2014 Accepted: 5 September 2014 Published: 20 September 2014

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Abstract

Knowledge is defined as human expertise, which is found in peoples mind and gained thorough experiences and interaction. Knowledge sharing is a social interaction culture, involving the exchange of employee knowledge and skills among colleagues within an organization. The main aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge sharing practice. Using cross-sectional study design data was collected from 305 random selected health professionals. STATA version 11 was used to analyze the data. Finally Logistic regression was used to assess the presence of the association between dependent and independent variables. Of the total participant 49.18% have knowledge sharing practice. The significant predictors of knowledge sharing practice were; motivation to transfer knowledge, salary increment, supportive leadership, knowledge sharing opportunity. The study revealed that there is still lower level of knowledge sharing, which is affected by leadership, openness, opportunity, amount of monthly income and staff motivation.

Published in	American Journal of Health Research (Volume 2, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajhr.20140205.14
Page(s)	241-246
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Transfer, and Knowledge Management Practice

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Teklit Gebretsadik, Gebremeskel Mirutse, Kidane Tadesse, Wondwossen Terefe. Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia. Am J Health Res. 2014;2(5):241-246. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20140205.14

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Teklit Gebretsadik

Department of computing, EIT-M, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Gebremeskel Mirutse

Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Kidane Tadesse

Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Wondwossen Terefe

Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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Teklit Gebretsadik; Gebremeskel Mirutse; Kidane Tadesse; Wondwossen Terefe. Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia. Am. J. Health Res. 2014, 2(5), 241-246. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20140205.14

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Teklit Gebretsadik, Gebremeskel Mirutse, Kidane Tadesse, Wondwossen Terefe. Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia. Am J Health Res. 2014;2(5):241-246. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20140205.14

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  author = {Teklit Gebretsadik and Gebremeskel Mirutse and Kidane Tadesse and Wondwossen Terefe},
  title = {Knowledge Sharing Practice and its Associated Factors of Healthcare Professionals of Public Hospitals, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia},
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 year = {2014}
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