ACQUISITION, APPLICATION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION (H.E.C) RECOGNISED UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN - Abstract

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The study investigates how knowledge acquisition, knowledge application, and knowledge utilization influence institutional learning in Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (H.E.C.)-recognized universities. Using a quantitative design with 418 distributed close-ended questionnaires, 245 were finalized for reliable primary data. Findings indicate that knowledge acquisition and utilization positively and significantly affect institutional learning, while knowledge application shows a non-significant effect. The results support developing strategies to ensure acquired knowledge is applied by students and faculty, strengthening institutional learning.

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Asian Journal of Contemporary Education ISSN(e): 2617-1252 DOI: 10.18488/journal.137.2020 .41.1.8 Vol. 4, No. 1, 1-8. © 2020 AESS Publications. All Rights Reserved. [URL:](URL: www.aessweb.com)[ ](URL: www.aessweb.com)[www.aessweb.com](URL: www.aessweb.com) ACQUISITION, APPLICATION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION (H.E.C) RECOGNISED UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN Fatima Rasheed1+ Lingling Guo2 1,2School of Management & Economics, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, Henan, China. (+ Corresponding author) ABSTRACT Article History Received: 10 December 2019 Revised: 16 January 2020 Accepted: 19 February 2020 Published: 30 March 2020 Keywords Knowledge acquisition Knowledge application Knowledge utilization Universities. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of knowledge acquisition, application and its utilisation influences to enhance the institutional learning in Pakistan. As numerous Pakistani managers hesitant for the acquisition of technologybased knowledge management, its application and after that its utilization in their organizations (Saeed, Tayyab, Anis-Ul-Haque, Ahmad, & Chaudhry, 2010) . In this quantitative study 418, close-ended structured questionnaires were distributed and 245 questionnaires were finalized for reliable primary data. The results of the current study showed that knowledge acquisition and utilization have a positive significant impact on institutional learning while knowledge application has a non-significant impact on institutional learning. In the light of results, it is being deduced that their need to devise strategies and methods so that, acquired knowledge could be applied in the institutions and could be utilised by the students and faculty members. In this way, new doors of knowledge would be open for institutional learning. Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes to existing literature by investigating the effect of knowledge acquisition, application and its utilisation influences to enhance the institutional learning in Pakistan. 1. INTRODUCTION Organizational evolution and competitiveness are considered to be affiliated with the knowledge management practices in the present world. Importance of knowledge management has been recognized in a developing country like Pakistan but there exist dearth of its practices in organizations (Pasha, 2012) . Knowledge about the particular field of business prevails like an asset for any organization for its progress. Organizations in Pakistan are still in the early phase of understanding the knowledge management implications and a reasonable number of senior managers perceive knowledge management as an overstated management of information and business process re-engineering and they believe that business process re-engineering has to face failures do knowledge management will have the same fate. Knowledge is actually a powerful force which drives through the „economies of ideas. Basically, knowledge management implementation is complex in nature which causing failure of 84% of knowledge management ventures (BenMoussa, 2009) . Such failure statistics has made hesitant the Pakistani managers to adopt technology-based knowledge management (Saeed et al., 2010) . Knowledge management is ordered and explicit phenomenon linked with the organizational exercise, policy making, day to day practices, launched projects and scheduled programs (Wiig, 2000) . In other terms, knowledge management is the technology utilization by the organization‟s intellectual capital (Jones & Sallis, 2013) . The knowledge economy enhances the capacity of the social and economic system continuously. Moreover, it broadens the knowledge, skills, social responsiveness, engagement in knowledge creation, lays the foundation of the progressive educational system and yield quality graduate stuff (Asmal & Kahn, 2000) . Proper implementation of knowledge in universitie

FAQs

What is the study’s main purpose regarding higher education in Pakistan?

To examine how knowledge acquisition, application, and utilization affect and enhance institutional learning in H.E.C.-recognized universities in Pakistan.

How was primary data collected and analyzed?

A quantitative study distributed 418 close-ended structured questionnaires, with 245 finalized as reliable primary data for analysis.

Which knowledge-related factors significantly impact institutional learning?

Knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization have a positive significant impact on institutional learning, while knowledge application has a non-significant impact.

What practical implication do the results suggest for universities?

Universities should devise strategies and methods so acquired knowledge can be applied in institutions and utilized by students and faculty members.

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