Abstract:
This study investigated the status of Knowledge Management (KM) in the administration of federal universities in South-East Nigeria. Five Research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was used. The population of the study was 420 administrative and academic in the universities investigated, while the sample of 212 was drawn using simple random sampling technique. A 30-item self-developed questionnaire, Status of Application of Knowledge Management in Administration of Federal Universities Questionnaire (SAKAFUQ), was used to collect the data. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to test the reliability of the instrument and it yielded overall reliability index of 0.98. Real limits of numbers were used to take decisions. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the five research questions, while t-test was used to analyse the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that the level of the status of application of KM by both administrators and academics in the federal universities in South-East, Nigeria is low. It also showed that the extent to which applying KM in administration enhanced professional advancement of both administrative and academic staff is little. The findings further showed that use of KM tools low. Based on the findings, recommendations were made which include; that administrative and academic heads should make effort more to embrace the internet, that university management should make key and longest serving employees to write memoirs of their experience to be presented on the day of their sent forth. Finally, the teaching of KM should be made a component of post-graduate study in all universities.
