Knowledge Management Concepts of Public Secondary School Administrators in Peripheral Masbate, Philippines

Knowledge Management is something of a fad in modern business press and it addresses key issues that can lead to success within organizations. It addresses how organizations are able to manage the knowledge embedded in its systems and contained in the heads of its employees. Yet knowledge management is not bound to businesses only. Even the education sector sees the necessity of opening up and embracing this new trend. Petrides and Nodine [1] highlighted the use of knowledge management in education to enable encouragement of greater intelligence, practical know-how, and effectiveness of education institution. Applying the context of Public Secondary School Administrators in Peripheral Masbate, Philippines, this descriptive research assessed the knowledge management concepts of public secondary school administrators focusing on knowledge creation, retention, transfer, and utilization along familiarity, extent of experience, extent of influence of the factors affecting knowledge management practices, and the aspects of school management that benefit from proper knowledge management. The study yields significant findings: (1) Public secondary school administrators are moderately familiar and moderately experienced in knowledge management; (2) Dominant factors that influence the school administrators’ knowledge management practices are vital and must be taken into consideration; and (3) Options for knowledge management advancements are imperative.

Keywords – Knowledge Management, Masbate, public secondary school administrators, peripheral