Analyzing knowledge management in research laboratories based on organizational culture

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine how the organizational culture conditions in a research laboratory in order to develop a strategy for the implementation of knowledge management system (KMS). We adopted a survey-based research approach was supported by an instrument of Organization Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI). We collected data from the member of the research laboratory in Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia. The questionnaire was given to 73 potential respondents with 51 valid responses. The results of this study are three of seven research laboratories have a distinction between the current conditions and the preferred conditions. We found that the preferred conditions of all research laboratories are organizational culture ‘Clan’.