Factors Analysis on Knowledge Sharing at Telkom Economic and Business School (TEBS) Telkom University Bandung

Knowledge is a core value that can be differentiates someone with another person. Sharing knowledge is one from many efforts that can be used in every organization to improve their goals. In academic institution, sharing knowledge become an important process that must be done to maintain the sustainability and achieving a competitive advantage in its role as a center of science so was in Telkom Economic and Business School (TEBS) Telkom University Bandung. The aim of this research is to define factors that create knowledge-sharing activities between lecturers in TEBS and to define how much these factors dominate knowledge sharing activities. This research adopts six variables as a knowledge sharing factors and using 75 lecturers who work as a respondent. Through factor analysis can be reduce six factors such as working culture, employee attitudes, motivation to share, opportunity to share, communication and technology become two dominant factors that inspire the creation of knowledge-sharing behavior in TEBS Telkom University Bandung. The new factors are opportunity to share knowledge and organizational culture. Opportunity to share knowledge it represented by opportunity to share, communication and technology. These factor able to explain 54,8% from all knowledge sharing factors. While 17,4% is explain from organizational culture and it represented by working culture, employee attitudes and motivation to share. From this result, we can conclude that academic institution have to improve the communication between lecturer to increase the opportunity to share. The qualities of technology such as Internet also become important to support knowledge sharing behavior.