Abstract
Knowledge sharing is one important activity in knowledge management. It enables knowledge to be created, as well as acquired and used by others. However, there are reasons to believe that employees are reluctant to share knowledge with their colleagues. Thus, in order to ensure the success of knowledge management effort, knowledge sharing among employees must be encouraged. Though studies had shown that there are many factors that might affect knowledge sharing behaviour, this paper aims at exploring the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing behaviour. Regression analysis on data gathered from a sample of 114 R&D employees’ indicated that affective commitment and normative commitment were significant predictors of tacit knowledge sharing. Additionally, explicit knowledge sharing was significantly and positively predicted by affective commitment. Implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are highlighted.
Highlights
At the turn of the millennium, one of the management issues that has received a lot of attention is the importance of knowledge as a source of competitive advantage for all types of organisations
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between organisational commitment and knowledge sharing behaviour
Consistent with the finding of Van den Hooff and de Ridder (2004), the results of the current study showed that affective commitment was positively and significantly related to both tacit and explicit knowledge sharing behaviours of research and development (R&D) employees
Summary
At the turn of the millennium, one of the management issues that has received a lot of attention is the importance of knowledge as a source of competitive advantage for all types of organisations. Wiig (1995), on the other hand argued that knowledge management is a group of well-defined procedures and methods used to extract key knowledge from various operations to assist in product development and strategies, and to improve human resource management practice Based on these definitions, it is clear that knowledge management is a must for all organisations. For most organisations the main goal of knowledge management is to create knowledge so that organisational members can learn from each other in order to enhance the competitiveness of the organisation (Liu & Tsai, 2007) For this purpose knowledge sharing has received a lot of attention because through knowledge sharing, new knowledge could be created, acquired by other members of the organisation, and stored for future use
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