THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ON GOOD GOVERNANCE IN ETHIOPIAN UNIVERSITIES: MEDIATED BY SERVANTLEADERSHIP
Keywords:
Knowledge Management; Good Governance; Servant Leadership; Ethiopian Universities, Path AnalysisAbstract
- Purpose: the very purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of knowledge management practice on good governance in Ethiopian universities under the mediating role of servant leadership
- Design/methodology/approach: The paper was quantitatively designed. To determine representative sample size, the Cochran formula was Accordingly, 369 academicians and academic leaders were chosen from the top ten Ethiopia Universities based on the 2020/21 evaluation report of the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. To undertake a critical data analysis, a path analysis model was adopted. Different statistical tools were implemented to test the robustness of the newly produced model.
- Findings:Both empirical and path analysis evidences indicate that knowledge management practices are passive to directly and significantly influence universities' governance system unless mediated by servant leadership
- Practical implication: This investigation will be a signal in that it may awaken leaders, academicians, and authorized stakeholders in Ethiopian universities to pay attention to knowledge management practices, servant leadership, and good Being inspired by this investigation, universities in Ethiopia may undertake institutional transformation. The investigation may also oblige them to revisit their organizational visions, mission, goals, structure, policies, and strategies.
- Originality: This very article is original fordifferent reasons. In the first place, there is no investigation under this very title in Ethiopian Secondly, the research objectivesand questions were newly designed. Thirdly, new research variables and items were inculcated. Finally, a statistically justified new knowledge management model was followed.
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