Abstract
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact knowledge acquisition process, knowledge documentation process, on human capital, and impact organizational culture on documentation process, Accordingly, a questionnaire-based survey was designed to test the aforementioned model based on dataset of 302 employees’ from the National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) in Jordan, questionnaires which include 29 items were used to gather information from the respondents. Multiple regression and simple regression analyses were conducted to test the research hypotheses. This study identified knowledge acquisition and knowledge documentation are the most important factors affecting the accumulation of human capital. The results indicated that knowledge acquisition process and knowledge documentation process positively and significantly affect human capital. However, organizational culture did not prove to be positively related to knowledge documentation process. Moreover, knowledge documentation process positively and significantly mediated the relationship between knowledge acquisition process and human capital. The results have enormous implication for the government sector in Jordan.
Highlights
Knowledge-based economy is a new type of economy today which employs organizational knowledge and Intellectual Capital (IC) as primary means for attaining competitive advantage (Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Masa’deh et al, 2008; Huang and Wu, 2010; Adewale and Anthonia, 2013; Ho et al, 2014; Al Saifi, 2015; Tarhini et al, 2015; Alkandari et al, 2017), in the context of organization
This study presents an empirically tested comprehensive model in order to examine Human Capital (HC) from a “knowledge process”-based perspective
The crucial role played by organizational culture in leveraging the effect of knowledge documentation on HC development was examined as well
Summary
Knowledge-based economy is a new type of economy today which employs organizational knowledge and Intellectual Capital (IC) as primary means for attaining competitive advantage (Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Masa’deh et al, 2008; Huang and Wu, 2010; Adewale and Anthonia, 2013; Ho et al, 2014; Al Saifi, 2015; Tarhini et al, 2015; Alkandari et al, 2017), in the context of organization. Knowledge considered being a key resource in the context of government services. Effective acquisition and documentation of knowledge has become a considerable challenge to government organizations in their attempt to achieve better accountability as well as achieving excellence in public services (Analoui et al, 2012). For a firm, in attaining its strategic rejuvenation, mas.ccsenet.org
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