Factor Affecting Adoption of Ubiquitous Computing in Knowledge Sharing: Comparison between Local and Foreign Employees in Private University Malaysia

Yuen Yee Yen,Lew Sook Ling,Seethaletchumy A/P Thambiah

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v10n1p161

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Abstract

This study aims to propose a research framework that could be used to examine key factors affecting adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing from the perspectives of foreign and local employees in private universities Malaysia. This research provides recommendations to the management and educational practitioners to promote and enhance foreign and local employees’ adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing in private universities Malaysia. Five hundred questionnaires were distributed to foreign and local employees who are currently working in top private universities in Malaysia. The finding of this study shows that collaborative organisational culture and help facility availability are two important factors that affect adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing from the perspectives of both foreign and local employees in private universities Malaysia. Strategic future planning positively influences local employees’ adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing but it does not significantly affect foreign employees’ adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing.

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Knowledge sharing in higher learning institution is essential for Malaysia to become a developed, high-income and knowledgeable country by the year 2020
The questionnaire consists 25 items measuring independent variables, 6 items related to individualism, 6 items related to strategic future planning, 7 items related to collaborative organisational culture and 6 items related to help facility availability
The findings of this study show that collaborative organisational culture and help facility availability are two important factors that positively affect adoption of ubiquitous computing devices in knowledge sharing from the perspectives of both foreign and local employees in private universities Malaysia

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Knowledge sharing in higher learning institution is essential for Malaysia to become a developed, high-income and knowledgeable country by the year 2020. Effective knowledge sharing by utilising ubiquitous computing devices among foreign and local employees is imperative to ensure that private universities Malaysia are able to compete with universities from all over the world in the era of globalisation. Ubiquitous computing is categorised by a profusion of interacted computational devices engrained within daily working and living environments (Chiou et al, 2010). Ubiquitous computing expands the scope of knowledge sharing and user interaction from a limited interaction with specific mobile device to a broad interaction with the environment as a whole for knowledge acquisition and enhancement. As foreseen by Weiser (1991), ubiquitous computing will assimilate computational mobile and wireless devices into human lives in the decades, complementing their daily interaction with surrounding people

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