The relation between employee characteristics and knowledge sharing
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/VJIKMS-05-2020-0092" target="_blank" >10.1108/VJIKMS-05-2020-0092</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The relation between employee characteristics and knowledge sharing
Original language description
Purpose Knowledge sharing becomes crucial in today's competitive world to foster organizational performance. This paper aims to explore which employee characteristics facilitate knowledge sharing in the organizations and to examine the dimensions of these characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Opinion-based questionnaires among employees in Czech companies were applied. The research design in this study was cross-sectional. The hypotheses were tested by Pearson's correlations and regression analyses. Findings The findings support the idea that specific individual employee characteristics increase knowledge sharing in the organization. Four categories of potentially appropriate employee individual characteristics were suggested: social and communication skills; positive work feelings; competences for problem-solving; and employee's self-efficacy. However, only employee's positive work feelings and self-efficacy significantly predicted the extent of knowledge sharing in the organization. Practical implications The findings offer a basis for future research. The results of the study can be used in recruiting new employees and managerial decision-making. The recruitment methods and the selection methods deployed should enable the firm to attract those whose values are in harmony with the organization's values. Managers should build a work environment that promotes greater and more trusting ties among employees via organizing social activities for employees, a supervisor's acceptance of an employee's autonomy and responsibility and increasing employees' confidence in their abilities. Originality/value This is one of the first studies to investigate dimensions of employee knowledge-oriented characteristics. It supports the idea that some individual employee characteristics boost spontaneous knowledge sharing behaviour.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Vine Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems
ISSN
2059-5891
e-ISSN
1474-1032
Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
486-507
UT code for WoS article
000590909600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85135785648