Volume 12, Issue 2, December 2014, Pages 463–474
Mohammad Osmani1, Abd Rozan Mohd Zaidi2, and Mehrbakhsh Nilashi3
1 Department of Information System, Faculty of Computing, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
2 Department of Information System, Faculty of Computing, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
3 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
By sharing knowledge, organizations are able to enhance their efficacy, decrease cost of training and moderate risks due to lack of certainty. In the age of knowledge, find a way to motivate employee for sharing knowledge with others is the most difficult issue in term of managing knowledge. Therefore, factors influencing knowledge sharing are particularly vital. This paper was conducted to encompass understanding of the trust and motivational factors that influence knowledge sharing behavior in organizations. It is important that no known study examined the influence of motivational factors onto knowledge sharing behavior through trust as a moderator. In this research we proposed a theoretical framework that combined motivational factors with Theory of Reason Action (TRA) to describe the relations among two types of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic), trust and worker's intentions and attitudes toward knowledge sharing.
Author Keywords: Trust, Knowledge Sharing, TRA, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Organization.
Mohammad Osmani1, Abd Rozan Mohd Zaidi2, and Mehrbakhsh Nilashi3
1 Department of Information System, Faculty of Computing, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
2 Department of Information System, Faculty of Computing, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
3 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
By sharing knowledge, organizations are able to enhance their efficacy, decrease cost of training and moderate risks due to lack of certainty. In the age of knowledge, find a way to motivate employee for sharing knowledge with others is the most difficult issue in term of managing knowledge. Therefore, factors influencing knowledge sharing are particularly vital. This paper was conducted to encompass understanding of the trust and motivational factors that influence knowledge sharing behavior in organizations. It is important that no known study examined the influence of motivational factors onto knowledge sharing behavior through trust as a moderator. In this research we proposed a theoretical framework that combined motivational factors with Theory of Reason Action (TRA) to describe the relations among two types of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic), trust and worker's intentions and attitudes toward knowledge sharing.
Author Keywords: Trust, Knowledge Sharing, TRA, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Organization.
How to Cite this Article
Mohammad Osmani, Abd Rozan Mohd Zaidi, and Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, “Motivational Factors, Trust and Knowledge Sharing in Organizations,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 463–474, December 2014.
