Knowledge sharing in the organization – necessary condition analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15584/nsawg.2023.4.7Keywords:
knowledge sharing, determinants of knowledge sharing, Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), factors necessary to engage in knowledge exchangeAbstract
The article reviews the literature in order to identify the factors that may determine the willingness of employees and their involvement in sharing knowledge with colleagues. The motives resulting from the employee’s personality traits, organization-dependent stimuli as well as the characteristics of the knowledge itself, which may determine the level of the employee’s readiness
to share it, were taken into account.
Then, using the necessary conditions analysis (NCA), it was determined whether the group of potential determinants of the willingness to exchange knowledge included elements necessary for the occurrence of a high and very high level of employees’ willingness to share knowledge.
In 14 cases (out of the 32 examined) the results of the analysis indicated the existence of the condition effect, but taking into account the adopted size assessment scale, this effect was rather small, and in one case it was medium. However, it is important that all factors with the value of the effect of the necessary condition >= 0.188 were included in the group of factors indicated by other methods as those with a large impact on the level of employees’ willingness to share knowledge. Such factors include the employee’s natural readiness to transfer their knowledge, openness to new experiences, employees’ optimism and their belief that they have knowledge of great value. At the same time, the study allowed for the presentation of the application of the necessary conditions’ method to analyse issues in the area of human resources management, which in this article was the search for factors necessary for the occurrence of a high level of employees’ willingness to share knowledge.
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