Information is a vital factor used by librarian, scientists and other information professionals and practitioners, in the library or any organization to make decision making, to prepare plans and strategies, to execute activities and services whether it is formal or informal knowledge to achieve its goals and objectives. Managing the valuable knowledge is now being seen as the mandatory action to be taken within many organizations so that this valuable resources can be used and accessed by anyone from anywhere, at any time. This need to be used and managed properly, so that it can stimulate new innovation, develop the levels of productivity, consistently ensure the quality of standard in order to compete the relative level of competitiveness in the organization. In this paper, it discussed some of the contemporary issues that are related in the world of information professionals. Knowledge retention and knowledge transfer have been risen in the recent times within the information society which involving the information management, knowledge management to the globalization of information services. Some issues and measurement action can be done to in order implement knowledge retention and knowledge transfer within the organization.
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To Cite this Article: Shah, K. M., & Hussin, N. (2018). From Knowledge Retention to Knowledge Transfer. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(9), 329–334.
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