THE ROLE OF EDUCATION SYSTEM IN KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE

Our investigation is in connection with knowledge management, but we would like to present another aspect of this field. We have investigated the general willingness of knowledge transfer among children and students. The philosophy of our research was that we did not investigate the processes of knowledge transfer among the walls of a company, however, we looked for the basic issue of knowledge management: whether young people are ready to share their knowledge or not. When we were conducting our research, we were looking for the answers of two questions: on the one hand, we wanted to know how cultural factors can influence the effectiveness of knowledge transfer, on the other hand, we looked for the impact of age, i.e. how one's age changes helpfulness in the respect of knowledge transfer. So we wanted to know what the role of the education system was in this process. We investigated the influence of cultural elements and education systems through two nearby countries: Hungary and Slovakia. We created two samples which included 600-600 people in each country to investigate the difference of cultural environment in the field of knowledge transfer. Our other assumption was that not only the cultural items, but the age can influence knowledge transfer essentially. We could prove the influence of education system with this hypothesis as well.