Management knowledge in land administration is currently facing a significant challenge. The paradigm of land administration encourages developed countries to strive for better knowledge management. Yet, knowledge sharing became the significant part of knowledge management strategy in land administration disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers that impede knowledge sharing in land administration. This study aims to determine how practices of knowledge sharing in land administration are implemented and the obstacles that they had to overcome despite the fact that knowledge sharing is a signifying implementation for organizational success. Land administration is how the rules of land tenure are applied and made operational. The processes of land administration include dealings; development of the land - amalgamation, subdivision, partition, and conversion; land taxation; title registration and resolving of conflicts concerning the ownership and the use of land (advisement or enforcement). Land administration in Malaysia is based on the Torrens System introduced by Sir Robert Torrens which was introduced in South Africa in 1858. Under the Torrens System, the Register is everything. Remarkably, the National Land Code (Act 828 of 1965) is the regulating rule for land management in Malaysia. An online survey was distributed to selected officers in the Land Office who are still serving at the Land Office, as well as former officers with good experience in land administration. They were asked to determine the knowledge sharing practices in land administration and to respond the major factors that are challenging or barriers that they are facing when knowledge sharing implemented in land administration. These findings suggest that knowledge sharing practices should be implemented, sustained, and standardized across all Perak Land Offices. As a result, the concept of knowledge sharing is more likely unstructured, which should be considered when designing structured knowledge sharing in land administration.
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To Cite this Article: Ibrahim, N. A., Samsudin, S., & Suratman, R. (2022). Using Relative Importance Index Methods to Study Knowledge Sharing Approaches and Barriers in Land Administration. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(10), 2280– 2291.
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