Peranan Perkongsian Pengetahuan Terhadap Jangkaan Tempoh Graduasi Mahasiswa Pasca Ijazah

The purpose of this study is to identify the critical success factors that influences the expected graduation time for postgraduate student. It also explores the interaction of knowledge sharing activities and the expected period of postgraduate students graduated. This research involves of 210 respondents from postgraduate research students in the field of Social Sciences at UTM, Johor Bahru. Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development (FPPSM) and Faculty of Education (FP) are involved in the study through a quantitative survey approach. Respondents answered the questionnaire given by the “Google Docstoc” application. Data analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 18.0. The critical success factors are made up of an individual’s factor, quality of supervision and organizational support factors. The result showed that individual factors, quality of supervision factors and organizational support factors have a positive relationship with the expected period of graduation in a significant level of p 0.05. Results also showed that the activity of knowledge sharing activities is the moderator for quality of supervision factors and organizational support factors at a significant level of p 0.05.