knowledge is a part of it (Trialih et al., 2017). The-
oretical study shows that there is a close relationship
among knowledge management, human capital man-
agement, and organizational learning. Moreover this
tight relationship can empower human resources and
knowledge resources within the organization, in order
to make knowledge usable as an organization’s com-
petitive advantage since human capital and knowl-
edge resources are unique, rare and inimitable.
Most previous studies and researches merely fo-
cus on knowledge sharing behavior. Hsiu-Ling Chen,
Hsueh-Liang Fan, and Chin-Chung Tsai conducted a
research about knowledge management behavior but
focusing on knowledge sharing behavior. The re-
search dimensions are knowledge management inten-
tion and knowledge sharing behavior. The research
results explored altruism and trust as the supporting
variables for knowledge sharing intention (Chen et al.,
2014). Another research about knowledge manage-
ment behavior was carried out by Nora Obermayer-
Kovacs, Edit Komlosi, Cintia Szenteleki, Erika Vik-
toria Toth. The dimensions in this research are ex-
changing ideas and cooperates. The research exam-
ined a significant positive relationship between em-
ployees’ emotional intelligence and knowledge shar-
ing behavior (Obermayer-Kov
´
acs et al., 2015). Simi-
lar research that also supports the theoretical study of
knowledge management behavior was carried out by
Sakineh Shahhosseini and Mohammad Ali Nadi. The
dimensions of this research is knowledge sharing be-
havior. The research tested that trust between employ-
ees and organization can significantly predict knowl-
edge sharing behavior (Shahhosseini and Nadi, 2015).
Next study was carried out by Mehdi Abzari, Arash
Shahin, and Ali Abasaltian. The research dimen-
sions are mutual process of knowledge and knowl-
edge generation. The research indicated that social
intelligence and emotional intelligence had an impact
on knowledge sharing behavior positively and signifi-
cantly (Abzari et al., 2014). As mentioned above most
researches focused on knowledge sharing behavior. In
fact, there are still many more knowledge-based activ-
ities that can support knowledge management behav-
ior.
As explained previously, it can be summarized
that knowledge management behavior is an individ-
ual activity and organizational routines at valuable
behaviors processes of collecting, managing, apply-
ing, sharing and updating knowledge. It acts as a dy-
namic humanist process to optimize human capabil-
ities, skills, mind and experiences as organizational
assets in order to achieve organizational effective-
ness (Razi and Habibullah, 2017). The indicators
of knowledge management behaviors are: (1) creat-
ing knowledge: gathering information to understand
problems, using data and facts, making observations,
finding solutions, finding new information to inno-
vate, anticipating change, looking for sources infor-
mation to gain knowledge, ask experts, learning from
experience, and learning from mistakes, (2) sharing
knowledge: sharing knowledge and expertise with
others, sharing knowledge to help others, working
together to find solutions, applying the knowledge
owned, building networks with experts, document-
ing knowledge, preparing information that is ready to
use, providing an assessment of new ideas that have
been tested, choose work inwardly, choosing to com-
pete outside, learning continuously, working together
to develop knowledge, deepening special knowledge,
and improving work ability, (3) updating knowledge:
working together to update knowledge, share knowl-
edge to update information, and recycling past experi-
ences to update knowledge. The knowledge manage-
ment behavior parameter in this study is experience
that is resulted from the combination between ex-
plicit knowledge and tacit knowledge (Hussein et al.,
2019) (Perkins and Arvinen-Muondo, 2013) (North
and Kumta, 2018). Based on the theoretical review, it
is possible to create 30 (thirty) indicators that will de-
termine the indicators of knowledge management be-
haviors. Those indicators will be put in the research
instrument below.
3 RESEARCH METHOD
The research instrument was developed based on the
theoretical framework. The questionnaire consists of
30 (thirty) indicators of knowledge management be-
havior (KMB). Those thirty indicators were created
based on previous researches and scholars’ opinions.
Those are: (1) gathering information to understand
problems, (2) using data and facts to get new infor-
mation, (3) making observations to get new knowl-
edge, (4) looking for the most appropriate solution
to overcome problems, (5) looking for new infor-
mation to innovate, (6) anticipating change to gain
new knowledge, (7) looking for various sources of
information to gain knowledge, (8) asking the ex-
perts to get the right knowledge, (9) learning from
experiences, (10) learning from mistakes, (11) shar-
ing knowledge and expertise with others, (12) shar-
ing knowledge and expertise to help others, (13) col-
laborating to find the most appropriate solution, (14)
practicing the knowledge, (15) building a network
with experts to exchange information, (16) document-
ing the knowledge owned to be easily used by oth-
ers, (17) preparing ready-use information, testing new
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