Inventory for knowledge management in construction organisation

Abstract

Relating construction industry with the existence of knowledge management (KM) is significantly important. KM has created fundamental impact on the way of construction management processes being organise. This research aim to investigate the current state of inventory for knowledge management in Malaysia construction organisation, beside that to identify and recommend the standard format of inventory for knowledge management and further more to examine the significant role of knowledge management in Malaysia construction organisation. This research was focusing on organisational resource base model developed by Meir in 2007. A structured questionnaire was used in data collection and distributed to 100 selected respondents from different firms around Johor Bahru, and only 33 respondent answered the questionnaire survey the performance indicators were adopted from literature studies and collected data were analysed using Relative Importance Index. The result was created based on the same organisational resources based Meir model with an additional important element for construction industries.