4.3 Knowledge sharing barriers
The third question set examined the barriers of knowledge sharing, that is, the factors that
hinder the employees from sharing their knowledge through a social media platform. Again
the questions were expressed in form of statements that the respondents evaluated in likert
scale from their own point-of-view. Figure 3 illustrates the results.
According to the results the barriers were not significantly present in the companies: on a
scale from 1 to 5, 1 was the mode in almost every question (Figure 2). This indicates that
respondents do not find these factors inhibit their knowledge sharing but are fairly keen to
share their knowledge to others in their company.