Communities of Practice, Workplace Spirituality, and Knowledge Sharing

Nur Kamariah Abdul Wahid, Norizah Mohd Mustamil

Abstract


This paper is to explore and making an analogy to synthesis the influence of workplace spirituality on knowledge sharing activities, focusing on the communities of practice as an important knowledge contributor, through their willingness to share their implicit knowledge with their fellow colleagues., deliberating the perspective of workplace spirituality.
Key words: Workplace spirituality; Communities of practice (CoPs); Organizational learning; Learning organization; Knowledge sharing; Knowledge management

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Workplace spirituality; Communities of practice (CoPs); Organizational learning; Learning organization; Knowledge sharing; Knowledge management

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