Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to analyze and synthesize the ideas on the nature of knowledge, higher education{7f2019}s knowledge, Thai higher education management, the factors affecting to knowledge management, the knowledge organizing, the infrastructure of knowledge management, the challenges of knowledge management and strategies of knowledge management and to present the knowledge management models in Thai higher education institutions. Data were collected by cumentationt analysis, and answering the questionnaires. Two samples were key informants. The first were nineteen presidents of Thai higher education institutions. The second were 130 administrators of 19 Thai higher education institutions. The research processes composed of analyzing and synthesizing the ideas, setting the interview questions and questionnaires, collecting data from the interview question and questionnaires, drafting the knowledge management models, recticfied by experts, model modifying and then, to present the knowledge management models. The knowledge management composed of visions, policies, missions, targets, assessment, strategies, knowledge management office, knowledge sharing process, knowledge service process and the output of performance. The results of the study showed that administrators require higher level needs while the present real situation is rather low in all factors involving knowledge management: knowledge creation, knowledge collection, knowledge utilization, knowledge sharing, knowledge service, knowledge communication, technology using, trust culture, synergy culture, knowledge workers, challenges of knowledge management and knowledge strategies. Job characteristics, needed new knowledge and highly required by administrators, were educational quality assurance, teaching, learning, curriculum, staff, technology, library, research, reward system, personnel keeping, scholar creation, job description, knowledge service. The administrators highly require knowledge to be shared across departments by both formal and informal communication more than before. The administrators also highly require the corporate knowledge service in five ways: distributing knowledge to the public, transferring knowledge, training, giving convenience for accessing knowledge resources and giving knowledge consulting. Knowledge management models in Thai higher education institutions focused on knowledge sharing and knowledge services which compose of ten categories: Vision being learning organization and community of knowledge workers; Missions knowledge building, knowledge distribution and knowledge services; Policies knowledge sharing both internal and external institutions and corporate knowledge service; Targets knowledge sharing culture building, knowledge service culture building, knowledge worker development, knowledge-based development and the development of knowledge interaction; Evaluation organization{7f2019}s competence and culture; Strategies of knowledge management administrative strategy, knowledge worker strategy, communication and technology strategy, trust strategy and synergy strategy; Knowledge management office chief knowledge officer , knowledge management strategic planning; Knowledge sharing and service processes preparing readiness, determination of knowledge sharing and knowledge service methodologies, assessment and improvement. The expectation outputs of this model were knowledge sharing culture, knowledge service culture, knowledge worker community, knowledge base and knowledge interaction and innovation