Proposing Values for Encouraging People to Share Knowledge: A Case of Active Learning

Abstract

The present study is designed to propose values for encouraging people
to share knowledge in the workplace. The implementation of active
learning in the higher education institutions (HEI) was selected as the
case study. Its aim is to develop lecturers’ commitment to encourage
students to share knowledge in the classroom, which can improve the
development of students’ soft and technical skills. The proposed values
are grouped under three constructs, namely, affective commitment
(faith and sincerity), continuance commitment (contemplation and goal
obsession) and normative commitment (means and attitude towards
university). The researchers have applied cross-sectional survey
research to validate the framework. It is found that faith, means,
contemplation and sincerity influenced the development of lecturers’
commitment to encourage students to share knowledge in the
classroom significantly. The practical implications are the discovery of theoretical, personal, and workplace practical best practices for the establishment of active learning in the HEI.