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· What incentives can help encourage knowledge sharing? (1029 reads)

Formal incentives

• Incorporate sharing in personnel competencies
• Organise lunch presentations
• Create an inventory on what people want to be asked about
• "Send" people to conferences and ask for reports on the meetings
• Reward people for ideas that are picked up by others

In general these aspect can be part of a personal development plan or personal commitment statement. Stimulate people to write down what they want to achieve in a coming period; for example 'publish and update their curriculum vitae on intranet' or 'visit two partner organisations' or 'mentor new personnel' or 'do a lunch presentation'. Most formal incentives can be organised by a HRM department.

Informal incentives

• Recognition / awards
• Allow people to publish stories (success and failure)
• Organise exhibition fairs / showcasing
• Invite people to talk about their work / write about their work in internal media
• Stimulate people to take part in communities of practice
• Organise happy hours
• Invite all personnel to contribute to a new year plan for the organisation

Other

• Allow self-organisation outside the hierarchy; allocate time for this
• Make sure management supports the idea of sharing knowledge
• Time spent on sharing must be recognised as legitimate by management / peers
• Stress the potential return of investment
• Centralise the canteen / coffee machines / water coolers / library
• Organise flexible workplace; get people out of their 'cubicles' or relocate people now and then
• Make management think about the concepts for a 'knowledge friendly organisation'

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