A study on antecedents of knowledge sharing among employees in HRM Division, Upstream Business, Petroliam Nasional Berhad / Mohamad Fahim Azman Ab Jalal

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between trust, empowering leadership, formalization and motivation with attitude towards knowledge sharing among employees in HRM Dlvison, Upstream Business, Petroliam Nasional Berhad. Therefore this study could make important contribution to extant research in management and organizational behaviour. In the beginning of this study, the purpose, research question, and the need for the study is given. Then, literature is discussed about trust, empowering leadership, formalization and motivation with knowledge sharing that focusing on the relationship between them. The study generated a 64.7 percent response rate from 218 respondents. There are several problem and limitation during conducting this research. Researcher has discovered several constraints that are lack of experience in terms of conducting a research, collecting data and gathered information from the employees, financial constraints and time constraints because the duration of time are very limited. There are much research conducted on the factor that contribute to knowledge sharing.