Slave or sibling: a moral reframing the corporate knowledge sharing community

Plessis, J.C. du; Britz, Johannes; Davel, Ronel

doi:10.4102/sajim.v8i2.660

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“…For example, according to Weber (1905) [1], the highest form of the moral obligation of an individual is to perform his/her duty with dedication. Moreover, recent scholarship suggests that creating new knowledge and sharing knowledge to enhance organizations' competencies are employees' indispensable moral obligations (da Costa et al, 2010;Du Plessis et al, 2006;Rechberg and Syed, 2013). As ethics is the central focus of ethical Ethical leadership and learning leadership (Brown et al, 2005), ethical leaders are likely to engage in their work roles and learning behaviors with dedication.…”

Section: Ethical Leadership and Exploitative Learning And Explorative...mentioning

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The role of ethical leadership in enhancing exploitative and explorative learning simultaneously: what does it matter if employees view work as central?

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Shafique

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PurposeThe present study aimed to test the hypothesis that ethical leadership positively contributes to exploitative learning and explorative learning simultaneously and then examine the moderating role of work centrality in the relationships of ethical leadership with exploitative learning and explorative learning.Design/methodology/approachTime-lagged survey data were collected from 257 middle managers and their 257 immediate supervisors in 76 firms in China. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and Hayes' PROCESS macro for SPSS.FindingsThe results revealed that ethical leadership positively contributed to exploitative learning and explorative learning simultaneously. Importantly, the authors found that work centrality strengthened the positive relationships of ethical leadership with both exploitative learning and explorative learning.Practical implicationsThe findings can help organizations enhance exploitative learning and explorative learning simultaneously and enable them to gain a sustainable competitive advantage.Originality/valueAlthough explorative learning and exploitative learning together constitute fundamental resources for organizations' long-term success, prior research has not looked into whether and when leader behaviors facilitate explorative learning and exploitative learning simultaneously. The study contributed to fill this gap by introducing ethical leadership, signifying its positive role in enhancing both explorative learning and exploitative learning, and establishing work centrality as a moderator to reinforce these two positive relationships.

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Section: Ethical Leadership and Exploitative Learning And Explorative...mentioning

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The role of ethical leadership in enhancing exploitative and explorative learning simultaneously: what does it matter if employees view work as central?

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“…Thus, the ethics of knowledge transfers and conversions become extremely important due to the individual loses sole rights to knowledge. Is this a transfer of property or personal worth [21]?…”

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“…A person could already know what is being shared. Plus, can we morally obliged a person to share something in return by sharing knowledge oneself [21]? People are less or not willing to share knowledge when nothing similar can be shared in return within a reasonable time span [27].…”

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Organizational Knowledge: Ethics and the Importance of Trust

Costa

Prior

Rogerson

2010

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The aim of this paper is to grasp the ethical dilemmas that arise into organizational knowledge and the importance of trust for diminishing these dilemmas. Therefore, it focuses three key issues: knowledge management (concept; and, schools of thought); knowledge flowing models versus ethics (mental models; the Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization (SECI) model; and, Fiske's relational model); and finally, the importance of trust as a possible answer. Plus, this paper suggests that the previous models only focus knowledge as continuum process and the result of this process omits ethical and moral dilemmas (obligation to share, personal property, personal worth, autonomy, dignity, privacy, etc.). These ethical dilemmas clearly weaken a knowledge management project, and how trust is a reliable answer. The absence of empirical work should be considered a limitation of this paper; however, does not diminish the importance for this debate.

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Ethical issues in knowledge management: conflict of knowledge ownership

Rechberg

Syed

2013

Journal of Knowledge Management

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Purpose -This paper aims to review ethical issues inherent in the theorisation and practice of knowledge management (KM) with specific attention to the conflict of knowledge ownership between organisations and individual employees.Design/methodology/approach -Relevant literature was identified and reviewed via EPSCO host and ISIWeb.Findings -The paper notes that knowledge, although rooted in individuals, is often claimed or treated as owned by organisations, creating a conflict of knowledge ownership. The paper argues that such an approach to appropriation and management of knowledge leads to tension in knowledge processes between organisations and individuals, and also among individuals. This situation may, in turn, jeopardise individuals' knowledge processing behaviours, and pose difficulties to organisations in managing knowledge effectively. Research limitations/implications -Offers a number of potential research questions that may be turned into research hypotheses and assessed experimentally to refine and develop an ethical approach to KM.Practical implications -Highlights the need for a renewed moral contract between individuals and organisations, built on ethical constructs of trust, fairness, and justice, which may in turn lead to effective KM practices.Originality/value -Offers an original conceptual approach to understand and resolve the conflict of knowledge ownership between organizations and individuals.

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Slave or sibling: a moral reframing the corporate knowledge sharing community

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Cited by 3 publications

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The role of ethical leadership in enhancing exploitative and explorative learning simultaneously: what does it matter if employees view work as central?

The role of ethical leadership in enhancing exploitative and explorative learning simultaneously: what does it matter if employees view work as central?

Organizational Knowledge: Ethics and the Importance of Trust

Ethical issues in knowledge management: conflict of knowledge ownership

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