Fostering a Culture of Knowledge and its Dissemination in Academia

Abstract

Knowledge propagation is essential for the survival of organisations especially in an academic environment. Faculty need to possess the right attitude as far as knowledge creation and dissemination is concerned. Knowledge, when trapped in an individual, is of use to only one person and therefore cannot be channelised for use by others. Citizenship behaviour is hence critical for faculty to help one another. The culture of the organisation must also abet such endeavours. 571 faculty serving in arts and science colleges in Karnataka were studied apropos variables like attitude, citizenship behaviour, organisational culture and knowledge propagation. t-test and linear multiple regression were applied.