Abstract
The transactive memory system is known as an effective group cognitive system as well as a knowledge-sharing structure for organizations to keep competitive advantages in today’s dynamic and knowledge-based business environment. However, its influence at the individual level remains vague. The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of a transactive memory system (TMS) on individual career resilience through the theoretical perspective of conservation of resources theory (COR). This research proposes and examines a moderated mediation model that elaborates how a transactive memory system affects individual career resilience. A two-stage empirical study was conducted among 328 employees from companies in China. The findings suggest that a transactive memory system significantly influences individual career resilience positively, and employee taking-charge behavior plays a mediating role in that relationship. Furthermore, the results supported our moderated mediation model, which indicates that individuals with high self-promotion motives are more likely to engage in taking-charge behavior than those with low self-promotion motives, and the former reported higher career resilience than the latter eventually. Theoretical and practical implications are also provided in the discussion section.
Highlights
For the past decades, organizations have been getting increasingly dependent on teams or groups in order to be more productive, agile, and sustainable within the dynamic and challenging business world
The present research investigated the effect of transactive memory system (TMS) on an individual level through the resourceinto personal career resilience (CR)
We theoretically proposed and empirically examined whether TMS motivates of taking charge for this linkage were moderated by self-promotion
Summary
Organizations have been getting increasingly dependent on teams or groups in order to be more productive, agile, and sustainable within the dynamic and challenging business world. Many researchers claimed that the transactive memory system (TMS) is an effective mechanism of incorporating employees with different expertise and coordinating their decentralized personal skills and knowledge. The transactive memory system (TMS) refers to a collective system that exists in teams or groups as a form of knowledge repository for encoding, storing, and retrieving information [2,3], and the system provides (1) information about each member’s specialized skills and expertise, and (2) a transactive processes that enable group members to link and cooperate with each other with their specialized expertise [4]. TMS as a social cognition system enables the organizations or groups to optimize the assignments of tasks to the appropriate group member as well as knowledge
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