Knowledge Management: Adoptions And Influence On The Implementation Of  Competency Apprenticeship  Smes “Style”  In Makassar

Ria Mardiana Yusuf; Nurdjanah Hamid; Andi Ratna Sari Dewi

doi:10.63922/ijebir.v2i01.75

Ria Mardiana Yusuf Economic and Business Faculty of Hasanuddin University
Nurdjanah Hamid Economic and Business Faculty of Hasanuddin University
Andi Ratna Sari Dewi Economic and Business Faculty of Hasanuddin University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63922/ijebir.v2i01.75

Keywords: knowledge management (KM) adoption, leadership, mutual understanding, system adoption, learning culture, competency apprenticeship, SMEs.

Abstract

Economic development of a nation is strongly influenced by the development of creative enterprises, namely Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SMEs are considerably concerned to be the foundation of a country against the poverty issues. Some studies reveal the contribution of SMEs contribute up to 60.34 percent to a country's GDP. However, SMEs experience a variety of basic problems, among others, on knowledge adoption applied in SME-organizations as well as apprenticeship for the competency improvements of SMEs. Adaptability and adoption ability of knowledge in SMEs is one of the emerging issues (Kusumawijaya and Astuti, 2012; Ley T. et al., 2005).

The study aims to analyse the knowledge management adoption; consist of leadership, mutual understanding, system adoption, and learning culture; and its influence on apprenticeship competency of culinary SMEs in Makassar, both as a whole and partially. Employing a descriptive quantitative research design to 124 employees of culinary SMEs in Makassar, the results indicate the whole determinants can show a positive effect interactively to the competency apprenticeship of SMEs in Makassar. Contrary, only learning culture demonstrates a positive partial effect on the competency apprenticeship of employee