Sharing working skill and knowledge in some industry, such as IT Company, Biotech Company, is of vital importance of their survive, prosperity and successful innovation. But reality of workplaces skill and knowledge sharing is discouraging and dim. In a survey conducted by our project in a hi-tech company shows that about 85% of respondent says they had never shared skill and knowledge with collogue in the past year and about 89% will not share with theirs collogue in the next year. To solve the problem, some strategy is design and implemented.
Incentive system holds immediately impact on employee’s behavior and should be examined carefully. Employee faced with great pressure of performance appraisal and force distribution is most reluctant to share their knowledge. In order to change situation of knowledge sharing, performance system should be redesigned. Sharing skill and knowledge should be included in the system, and results come from knowledge sharing should be evaluated and rewarded accordingly. Other incentive system also should be close look at, such as compensation system. Now existing compensation system encourages selfness and egoism, new system should be introduced, and employee should be pay not only according to their diplomas or qualification, but to their authentic contributions to company’ successful innovation.
Mentorship impact skill and knowledge formation, the skillful and seasoned should take responsibility of mentoring green hand and guide their vocational growth according to company’ strategy. If implemented successful, mentorship system can benefit both mentor and mentee, and helpfully can establish knowledge sharing culture. The difficulty of mentorship system is to evaluate mentorship result and effectiveness, both in term of individual and organizational level.
For sunrise industry, working place learning and knowledge sharing is crucial factor for survive and sustainable growth, new methodology and practice should be introduced to encourage and guarantee knowledge sharing among employee and foundation of incentive system should be revised according to new embarrassment encounter in knowledge times and knowledge workforce.