The Role of academic culture on knowledge sharing of faculty members Case Study: University of Al-Zahra (SA)

This study was down to examine the components of the academic culture of knowledge sharing among faculty members of Al-Zahra university .Components of academic culture were: academic autonomy, academic freedom, university management, professional ethics, communications, social and team work ,culture of learning, trust, and reward and evaluation systems .The method of study was qualitative content analysis and data collection tools was semi-structured interview. Participants were members of faculty of humanities whose major was soft-practical were present by the purposive sampling(n=13). Data were analyzed by method of qualitative content analysis. The results show that knowledge-sharing activities among faculty members of Al-Zahra university are weak and component of university culture has fundamental weaknesses and act as a barrier to knowledge-sharing activities .also participants of this research stated lack of time and single-sex school as other barriers to knowledge- sharing that effect on academic culture. Despite the fact that cultural change takes time we can overcome this barriers by strategic planning of knowledge management.