Results demonstrate that following factors influence the learning process through knowledge sharing. There are many taxonomies that specify various kinds of knowledge. Une metaanalyse completed research paper tingpeng liang department of information management national sun yatsen university, kaohsiung. Pdf in the new global knowledge has become a central issue for organizations survival. Even though an individual has the knowledge sharing attitude and intention, still that individual can lack knowledge sharing behavior. Assessment of factors affecting employee motivation and behavior in the lebanese organizations article pdf available in journal of scientific research and reports 312. Empirical data was collected using a questionnaire. The concept of knowledge sharing is getting more and more attention in the research and practice of knowledge management.
Can social exchange theory explain individual knowledgesharing behavior. Antecedents of knowledge sharing behavior analyzing the. Best 50 sharing knowledge quotes words of great wisdom sharing knowledge has helped mankind survive and evolve into the intelligent and productive species he is today. Information sharing and knowledge sharing as communicative.
The researchers found a significant relationship 0. Research article investigating knowledge sharing behaviour in. Inspiring people to share knowledge and experience at workplaces has gain attention among the researchers to determine the ways of motivating employee to knowledge sharing behavior. An empirical study of the role of trust and other socialcognitive factors in an organizational setting m. Trust has been recognized as a key factor affecting knowledge sharing behavior. Pdf theories of knowledge sharing behavior in business. A questionnaire for elaborative knowledge sharing to enhance. Pdf the influence of the bigfive personality traits.
Knowledge sharing behavior of physicians dentists in in. Results showed that no significant difference was found between knowledge sharing behaviour of lis educators with different major research questions mrqs. The main objectives of this research are to i investigate the practice of knowledge sharing among academics, and ii examine the relationship between knowledge sharing behaviour and its predictors based on the theory of planned behaviour. In the animal kingdom and indeed in business, knowledge sharing can make the difference between survival and extinction. Can social exchange theory explain individual knowledge. If time is the constraining factor it will make no difference how motivated personnel are or what means they have at their disposal.
Job autonomy, amo model, knowledge sharing behavior, knowledge donating behavior, knowledge collecting behavior, innovative work behavior, social media. My approach will consist of creating situations where the organisations staff work things out for themselves and develop their own interventions as is my way, but it did get me wondering what knowledge behaviours might be. It extends the theory of planned behavior to the auditing setting and examines auditors knowledge sharing behavior with the firms knowledge management systems kms. The right culture, incentives, and so on must therefore be present. Pdf determinants of knowledgesharing intention and. Developing a conceptual framework for knowledge sharing behavior by considering emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies mehdi abzari1, arash shahin2, ali abasaltian3 1full professor at the university 2associate professor, management department, university of isfahan, isfahan, iran. Academicians knowledge sharing behaviour and social intelligence plays an essential role in enhancing their teaching and learning performance. Sept 28 to oct 1, 2014 kota kinabalu, malaysia theories of knowledge sharing behavior in business strategy md lazim md zin oya graduate school of. Knowledge sharing barriers reduce the propensity of individuals to share knowledge and produce innovation behaviour. Three variables, namely extrinsic motivation, absorptive capacity and channel richness, were. Culture acts as an antecedent to knowledge sharing, for example, innovative, community, and bureaucratic cultures tend to have a positive effect on knowledge sharing behaviors. Pdf knowledge sharing behavior and individual factors. In this study, the dependent variables showed how well the subjects performed in the idea generation task and how satisfied they were with the sharing. One of the most important areas of knowledge management studies is knowledge sharing.
Max evans doctor of philosophy faculty of information university of toronto 2012 abstract effective knowledge sharing within project teams is critical to knowledgeintensive professional service firms. Motivations of employees knowledge sharing behaviors. Ive been asked by a client to propose a way to help embed knowledge behaviours. Universiti teknologi mara kedah, malaysia and how does it inflict on their knowledge sharing behavior. Several theories have been applied to study knowledgesharing behavior included theory of reasoned action tra, theory of planned behavior. Knowledge sharing would be alarming if knowledge sharing is not done in hospitals were we deal with human lives. Linking transformational leadership and knowledge sharing. Factors affecting hospital employees knowledge sharing. This paper analyses knowledge sharing ks behaviour of employees during unplanned, workrelated facetoface meetings with colleagues. This study aims to summarize the extant literature investigating the impact of leadership styles on the knowledge sharing behavior of followers in the organizational context. Pdf determinants of knowledge sharing behavior researchgate. The effect of knowledge sharing behaviour in influencing. Introduction the knowledge economy is the latest development in global economic. A crosslevel analysis of effects we investigated individuallevel knowledge sharing and innovative behavior of employees, organizational innovation climate, and interactions between the individual level of knowledge sharing and the climate of innovation within the organization.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect the knowledge sharing intention and knowledge sharing behavior in a public sector organization. The prime focus of this study is to measure knowledge sharing behaviour of information science and library. However, only few recent empirical studies exist on which factors affect employees knowledge sharing behavior covering both. Knowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge namely, information, skills, or expertise is exchanged among people, friends, families, communities for example, wikipedia, or organizations. In the rest of this section i will discuss the concepts of knowledge sharing according to the different types of knowledge. The effectiveness of a knowledge sharing activities in organization has the potential of improving customer services, bringing new product to market and reducing cost of business operations. Indicates whether the faculty interacts at various levels. Therefore in this study we investigate knowledge sharing behavior, we hypothesized that. Knowledge sharing, organizational climate, and innovative behavior. Part a is divided into five performance indicators of collaborative knowledge sharing in an academic organization. His study concluded that there is a positive relationship between the channel richness on attitude towards knowledge sharing behavior. Knowledge sharing, organizational climate, and innovative.
Abstractthis study try to examining the relationship between knowledge sharing behavior and information exchange in the. Knowledge sharing time sensitiveness and pushpull strategies in a nonhype organization peter holdt christensen department of management, politics and philosophy copenhagen business school paper presented at the 19th egos colloquium. Data were collected through an online survey using a questionnaire from academics in public universities. Conclusion it is important to select employees who have a propensity for innovation and continuously educate them about knowledge management based on trust. The results clearly show and confirm that feelings of empowerment and knowledge sharing have strong and significant impacts on employee innovative behaviours.
Abstract the concept of knowledge management has, indeed, become a buzzword that. This is because it allows them to discuss and deliberate on certain topics which can encourage the generation of new knowledge fernie, et al. The relationship between cultural identity and individual. Likewise, the data reveal that these factors have no significant relationship in the knowledge sharing behavior of the public officers in malaysia. This was supported by yun, takeuchi and liu, 2007 knowledge sharing behavior are related to the employeesay willingness to share their knowledge with the others in the business.
In order to promote knowledge sharing behavior, people in business. Understanding knowledge sharing behaviours 3 executive summary the importance of knowledge in the health service is widely recognised. It is necessary to develop relevant performance assessment and reward systems to encourage peoples knowledge sharing behaviors ksbs. Nevertheless, empirical studies that link these concepts are scarce. Supervisory justice, organizational citizenship behavior. Theories of knowledge sharing behavior in business strategy. Jan 02, 2017 knowledge sharing is a planned behavior perceptions, attitude and intention control knowledge sharing behavior 9. This study examines the factors affecting physicians knowledge sharing behavior within a hospital department by existing theories,the theory of reasoned action. Ziaurrehman, abdul jabbar khan, m khyzer bin dost, dr. Understanding knowledgesharing behaviour in wikipedia.
Thus, identifying barriers and their impact on knowledge sharing and individual innovation behaviour is a potential research area to study. Becoming a knowledgesharing organization knowledge sharing in action knowledgesharing is helping to scale up solutions for hivaids control in india indias national aids control organisation naco in india, hivaids is an enormous barrier to development, currently costing more than 100,000 lives per year. Pdf the impact of knowledge sharing on innovative work. Librarians provide access to information resources and services to support the vision and mission of their parent institution. In the context of this study, the attitudes and behaviors of knowledge sharing behavior is a willingness to share knowledge hislop 2002. Based on a sensegiving theory perspective, this article attempts to uncover the mechanisms by which transformational leadership have its impact on employee knowledge sharing behavior by proposing two teamdirected mediating mechanisms. What factors influence knowledge sharing in organizations. Initial discussion in this paper, was discussing the nature of knowledge sharing and. Questionnaires knowledge sharing behavior were use. Km expert jim lee talks how team rewards make a bigger impact. Kennedy t1, regehr g, rosenfield j, roberts sw, lingard l. It follows that you have intention to share knowledge you actually share knowledge lets explain. Improving knowledge sharing behaviour within organizations.
Developing a behaviour which values and practices knowledge sharing is an effort involving attention to organizational and users perspective and performance. Further, both information and system quality have significant effects on individuals attitude towards wikipedia, and therefore, influence the intention to share knowledge in it. According to the model, knowledge sharing behavior of employee determined by hisher intention toward knowledge sharing and subjective norms. Minbaeva, torben pedersen, and mia reinholt job design is one of the most frequently researched practices in the human resource management hrm literature, and knowledge sharing has become an important and heavily researched managerial practice. On knowledge behaviors 3 on knowledge behaviors without a doubt, knowledge management has much to do with behavioral change. For that reason, highperformance organizations seek to minimize the drag of old mental models and help embed knowledge behaviors. Work published in books, conferences, or working papers was excluded. Noeb,1 a department of management, university of nevada, las vegas, 4505 maryland parkway, las vegas, nv 89154, united states. Knowledge and the importance of knowledge sharing in. Knowledge sharing behaviour is viewed as the degree to which employees actually share their knowledge with their colleagues for organisational tasks and goals. By integrating both trust and user personality into a unified research framework, this study examines how trust mediates the effect of personality traits specifically, agreeableness and. Connelly and kelloway 2003 define knowledge sharing as a set of behaviours that involve the exchange of information or assistance to other.
Negative behavior towards knowledge sharing is always discouraged in our organization. Recently, in knowledge management kmrelated research. Till now, little effort has been put into developing a valid and reliable measure of ksb. Based on the theory of reasoned action, this study is focused on an individuals behavior of knowledge sharing with respect to information systemsinformation technology isit by investigating their attitude towards knowledge sharing. While, the theories identified that attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and exchange of maximizing. Delphi research group showed that knowledge is stored in the structure.
Despite the importance of knowledge sharing in building up a firms organizational. Predicting knowledge sharing intention based on theory of. Surprising and quite interestingly, females report greater feelings of empowerment but were less inclined to engage in knowledge sharing. The findings of this study have implications for literature and practice.
The literature has identified factors that affect the employees knowledge sharing behavior king and marks 2008, wasko and faraj 2005, a. Librarians play a pivotal role in helping the university to realise the objective of teaching, learning and research. This paper aims to examine the influence of knowledge sharing behaviour and social intelligence on teaching and learning performance. Review of factors affecting knowledge sharing behavior. Hence it is the objective of this paper to discuss knowledge sharing and the importance of knowledge sharing within an organization. The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on. Results also show that there is a positive direct relation between willingness. Knowledge sharing depends on the habit and willingness of the knowledge worker to seek out andor be receptive to these knowledge sources. Among the individual employees of an organisation, there will be a wealth of knowledge and experience, but to maximise its potential, this knowledge must be shared transforming individual knowledge into. A questionnaire for elaborative knowledge sharing to. Culture refers to a system of beliefs rooted in the society and expressed through the behavior of people and organizations. Knowledge sharing behavior as a catalyst for innovative work. In the new global knowledge has become a central issue for organizations survival.
Knowledge sharing behaviour among students in learning. The influence of the bigfive personality traits dimensions on knowledge sharing behavior article pdf available in mediterranean journal of social sciences 71 january 2016 with 5,311 reads. Factors influencing knowledge sharing behavior ksb among. Other studies that examinedchannel richness desire to share knowledge by kwok and gao 2006. From the 16 desirable habits of mind, a practical, multiagent. Knowledge sharing behavior of the students semantic scholar. Knowledge sharing behavior is defined as the degree to which an individual conducts knowledge sharing activities in a group meeting davenport and prusak, 1998. Indicates whether the academic organization encourages effective knowledge sharing. The ongoing debate in the international communitys is on the evaluation of knowledge sharing and its impact on organisational effectiveness.
In this study, we used social cognitive reinforcement theory, which is derived from social learning theory, to examine how the employeeorganization relationship eor influences managers knowledgesharing behavior. Knowledge and types of knowledge knowledge is not an easy concept to discuss. You have a positive attitude toward knowledge sharing you believe that others have expectations that you should share knowledge. The trust and behavior coordination between the knowledge sharing subject and object is the prerequisite to establish effective sharing, exchange and interaction channel. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relations of authentic leadership al with employee knowledge sharing behavior and intervening processes. Analytical results indicate that internal selfconceptbased motivation significantly influences individuals knowledge sharing intention. It can help to contribute to innovative work behavior iwb towards knowledge based development initiatives, in particular regarding the phenomenon of knowledge sharing ks in higher education.
At present, online discussion forums are receiving highest. A necessary precursor for successful knowledge management initiatives is knowledge exchange between. An empirical investigation into the influence of knowledge. Most of researches considering knowledge sharing are from organizational and business contexts.
Authentic leadership and employee knowledge sharing. Max evans doctor of philosophy faculty of information university of toronto 2012 abstract effective knowledge sharing within project teams is critical to knowledge intensive professional service firms. The impact of leadership styles on knowledgesharing. Some theories such as social exchange theory set, theory of. Pdf theories of knowledge sharing behavior in business strategy. Applying the theory of planned behavior to influence. Finally, several limitations, suggestions for further research and practical implications were discussed. Factors affecting hospital employees knowledge sharing intention, knowledge sharing behavior, and innovation behavior are reciprocity, behavioral control, and trust. Knowledge sharing intention in turn was predicted by knowledge workers attitude towards knowledge sharing, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. Knowledge sharing holy grail is change management that incorporates rewards and recognition. The beginning of the former stream dates back to the late 1960s, while the research tradition on knowledge sharing is somewhat younger. A survey was conducted with 188 knowledge workers of a publicsector. Measured in terms of number of scientific articles and organizations applications, knowledge sharing stands as an example of success in the field. A lack of a holistic understanding of how various knowledgesharing motivations that have different quality levels, in terms of their degrees of autonomy, on employees knowledge sharing behaviors influence one another would hinder an organizations ability to plan for, evaluate, and justify their efforts to enhance employees knowledge.
Knowledge sharing behavior was predicted by the knowledge workers intention towards knowledge s haring and perceived behavioral control. Trends, issues and challenges in knowledge management and. Examining relationships between individual, organizational factor and knowledge sharing behavior by ain zuraini binti zin aris thesis submitted to othman yeop abdullah graduate school of business, university utara malaysia, in fulfillment of the requirement for the master of human resource management april 2014. How do personality traits shape informationsharing. Determinants of knowledge sharing behaviour among academics. Knowledge sharing behaviour by librarians in federal. Impact of knowledge sharing and transformational leadership on organizational learning 60 in the recent decades, there has been a growing interest in organizational learning, based on a belief that organizational learning is very crucial and of key importance for organizations to survive in the competitive world of today.
Fostering managers knowledge sharing is very important in the utilization and leverage of organizational knowledge. Interaction very effective effective some what effective less effective not at all effective no statement 5 4 3 2 1 1. Sharing of knowledge helps individuals and organizations build up knowledge. What factors influence knowledge sharing in organizations a. Against this background, this chapter aims to highlight the relationship between cultural identity and knowledge sharing behavior. In addition, the study also analyses the role of religiosity on knowledge sharing behavior and non monetary factors.
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