Motivation to Share Knowledge of Doctors in Teaching Hospital in Indonesia

The development of medical science and information communication technology recently cannot be separated. Its means that the rapid flow of information and knowledge, facilitated by information and communication technologies, makes the rapid development of medicine field and become a mandatory for all actors to keep improving their skills in the form of both soft and hard skills. This condition is followed with serious challenges, that many doctors still have a reluctance to share information and knowledge to their colleagues, especially with regard to the unique and complex cases. The main objective of this research was to determine the factors that affect the motivation of a doctor in conducting knowledge sharing with peers, especially at 4 (four) teaching hospitals in Indonesia. This research used a direct survey method through computer-based questionnaire. The number of questionnaires were collected and further processed as many as 76 examples with a participation rate of 34.55% (from a total of 220 examples of questionnaires were distributed using surveymonkey.com). The results of processing and data analysis using PLS-SEM showed that variables that had a significant influence on the motivation of doctors to share knowledge are enjoyment helping others and rewards. The main conclusion of this study is that doctors who determines the motivation to share knowledge with colleagues is coming from personal motivation and is not due to the stimulus coming from the head of the hospital s management, although the results showed that in fact there has been rewards mechanisms of the management, but the impact has not been felt particularly to increased motivation in performing activities of a doctor voluntarily sharing knowledge to colleagues.