Knowledge sharing: Constraint to effective human capital development among local government staff in Osun State

The paper seeks to examine the hindrances to effective Human capital development in the local government councils through knowledge sharing. The paper adopts the use of standard literature review, to review relevant and recent literature on knowledge sharing, knowledge management, local government administrations and human capital development. The study adopts a quantitative approach, 240 participants were selected out of which 172 participants responded to the research questions. Administrative staff were considered very relevant for the study because they occupied the position of administrator that are involved in running the affairs of the local councils. Likewise, the participants are in the position of developing themselves as well as developing those that work with them. It was found that their opinion formed bases for understanding major hindrance that affects knowledge sharing within employees of the local council. The findings reveal that attention should be taken by government to make sure that councils focus on the purpose for which they were established, that is, human capital development and bringing government activities closer to the general public rather than creating problems or been bias in sharing the right information. It was also observed that transferable skills are important and room should be created for mentoring of junior staff to overcome all sort of hindrances.