Abstract
Record numbers of employees are retiring in North America, and with their retirement knowledge pertaining to the organization could be exiting with them (Collins, 2007). In this paper, we propose and test a model of attitudes and intentions towards knowledge sharing (KS) with 252 retiring and recently retired employees. The results suggest that a partially mediated model where affective commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived organizational support predict attitudes towards KS, which in turn positively predict tacit and explicit KS intentions, and negatively predict intentions to hoard knowledge, fit the data the best. Job satisfaction directly and positively predicted intentions to share tacit and explicit knowledge, and negatively predicted intentions to hoard knowledge. Organizational policies and practices, personal perceived knowledge value, and financial stake were significant moderators of the relationship between attitudes towards and intentions to share knowledge. Study findings and limitations, as well as future research directions are discussed.
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