Building Knowledge Sharing Through Learning Organization in Creative Industry

Description:

The aim of this research is to find the most appropriate model of theoretical Learning Organization and Implementation as well as the application of organizational behavior in people and structural level to develop the knowledge through integrated Learning Organization model as the foundation to build the knowledge of some organizations which run their business in fashion creative industry in West Java. In order to meet such goal in the first year we prepare an integrated learning organization which be adopted by fashion creativeindustries in Bandung along with its knowledge model. Whereas in the second year we will combine our latest model with the previous model applied in fashion creative industry and observe how such Learning Organization and Knowledge Management may improve the working commitment of human resources in such industry. We use human resources working in fashion creative industry in Bandung, West Java, as the sample used in our research. Fashion creative industry’s business agents represent all levelsand departments of the fashion industry. Watkins and Marsick questionnaire model as the instrument to measure Integrated Learning Organization and Hoff and Ridder model to assess the level of knowledge sharing and maintenance in an organization. The findings of this research reveals that in the event that each member of organization in individual level continuously performs life-long learning, communicates with his/her collague, and provides feedback to each other as well as active learning in the level of group may bring positive and significant impact to the attitudes of top management which deal with organizational learnings well as donating and collecting organizational culture. However, the role of top management does not have any impact towards knowledge sharing, in the event than the role of such management is weighed from the perspectives of dimensions and indicators of Learning Organization. There are two dimensions of organizational commitment namely the intention to contribute the best to the business agents’ organization and the common visions, goals and values shared by both individuals and their agents. Those two dimensions bring positive and significant impacts to knowledge sharing culture in fashion industry

Author:

  1. Taufiqur Rachman
  2. Rina Anindita

Source:

International Conference on Recent Innovation 2018