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Knowledge Transfer and Firm’s Performances in Learning Organization

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Transferring of knowledge is how the knowledge can be shared effective and efficiently within the organization by providing communications tools and promote information sharing procedure within the staffs. Knowledge can be transfer to others by using the non-IT or IT methods such as through the process of mentoring, brainstorming, and technologies in order to make the transferring of knowledge effective and efficient that can affect the firm’s performances. The problem statements of this study are related with the unaware of brainstorming method for knowledge transfer, lack of mentoring in the learning organization, and poor usage of technologies in the learning organization in the learning organization. The purpose of this study is to make sure that all the learning organization aware the importance transferring it knowledge that is vital and important from getting exposes to others and making the knowledge sharing to be much more effective. The main objective is to identify the relationship of brainstorming, mentoring, and technologies towards firm’s performances. The finding indicates that dimension of knowledge transfer (mentoring, brainstorming, and technologies) and firm’s performances are significantly correlated. The insight may create awareness among leaders at learning organization in the process of capturing tacit knowledge.
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