THE USE OF EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS (EFA) FOR TESTING THE VALIDITY OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING INSTRUMENTS

Noor Jeffri Abdul Wahab

Abstract


Knowledge sharing has a significant impact on employee performance. Institutions need to pay more attention to things that can be used to adapt in challenging times. That is why knowledge sharing is very important as an added value for lecturers at Private Higher Education Institution (PHEI) to ensure the competitiveness and productivity of the institution. Therefore, this study focuses more on knowledge sharing instruments built on the basis of previous studies. The reliability and validity of the test tool was tested using data from a pilot study conducted involving 104 respondents from population of 28,570 PHEI lecturers using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Finding shows that 12 items representing knowledge sharing have a loading factor exceeding (0.60). Therefore according to previous scholars' views, this instrument is valid and has high reliability and validity. This instrument can be used for actual and future studies.

Keywords: Knowledge sharing, validity, Factor Exploratory Analysis


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