Organizational preparedness for Knowledge Sharing

Recently during an interaction with the delegates from different organizations in the government, the delegates agreed that to create knowledge sharing environment, the organization has to create a trust based environment among the employees and the stakeholders, followed by communication and collaboration among the people and stakeholders in the organizations. The organizations more than highlighting on the benefits of knowledge sharing, it must prepare the organization to create environment for knowledge sharing.

The first step would be to bring about cultural change of cooperation and commitment and create a trust based environment. But they surprised me with the idea of selective sharing among the employees and the stakeholders.

They suggested that the people in the organizations selectively share information and knowledge among themselves based on the issues they find important to themselves. In effect, the exchange culture is leadership based and may not be directly linked to cultural change.