The Enjoyment of Knowledge Sharing: Impact of Altruism on Tacit Knowledge-Sharing Behavior

Obrenovic, Bojan; Du, Jianguo; Tsoy, Diana; Obrenovic, Slobodan; Khan, Muhammad Aamir Shafique; Anwar, Farooq

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01496

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“…The environment of higher education dictates that for a faculty to succeed in his/her career, he/she needs to establish a good reputation in the field of study, unit of work and the community at large to reap all expected benefits and aspirations attached to an academic career [ 33 ]. In addition, in higher education environments, collaboration on all kinds of projects, voluntary provision of key information, donating time for non-instructional or teaching duties as the for departments, colleges or offices on campus or even helping a community member solve a problem are all part of an academic career, and all share some elements of altruism [ 34 ]. Reputation and altruism are two social determinants of the faculty’s tendency to share knowledge.…”

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“…Altruism enhances faculty’s likelihood of donating knowledge sharing [ 64 ]. Altruistic faculty feel the need to help others in whatever they need, or anything perceived to be ancillary to their careers or lives, therefore attempt to share important information with them [ 33 ].…”

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“…Altruistic faculty feel the need to help others in whatever they need, or anything perceived to be ancillary to their careers or lives, therefore attempt to share important information with them [ 33 ]. Further, altruistic faculty feel an obligation for making their organization survive and succeed in accomplishing its stated mission and vision, thus they attempt to supply any useful information to realize such ends [ 34 ]. Faculty with low altruistic qualities are more likely to withhold information since their sense of voluntary assistance to others or their organization is low [ 34 , 65 ].…”

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“…Further, altruistic faculty feel an obligation for making their organization survive and succeed in accomplishing its stated mission and vision, thus they attempt to supply any useful information to realize such ends [ 34 ]. Faculty with low altruistic qualities are more likely to withhold information since their sense of voluntary assistance to others or their organization is low [ 34 , 65 ]. This tendency may be explained by low trust in others or personal valuation to organizational commitment or loyalty.…”

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The explanatory power of social cognitive theory in determining knowledge sharing among Saudi faculty

Almuqrin

Mutambik

2021

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Knowledge sharing positively and significantly improves academics’ research, instruction and community service. The study of knowledge sharing in Saudi higher education is limited and offers little guidance to administrators, as well as faculty on how to capitalize on knowledge sharing and utilize it to their own and organizations’ benefits. This research presents findings from an original quantitative study testing a structural equation model linking social cognitive theory to knowledge sharing collection and donation measured by validated scales from the extant literature. Community characteristics including altruism and reputation carry significant positive effects on knowledge sharing collection and donation. Similarly, personal outcomes expectations possess a moderate positive effect on knowledge sharing collection and donation. Self-efficacy in knowledge sharing emerged as an important predictor of knowledge sharing activities among Saudi academics. The findings suggest the need for developing professional training seminars on using social media for knowledge sharing in formal departmental and college settings. Further, the results confirm the relevance of social cognitive theory for the study of knowledge sharing. This creates the need for Saudi universities to invest in mentorship programs using digital platforms where personal and community outcomes’ expectations are likely to improve among academics thereby increasing knowledge sharing activity.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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“…The study also seeks to explore factors that influence the sharing of health information among such users. There are many classical models in the area of research on health information sharing such as the social cognition theory [12], the theory of reasoned action [13], and the theory of planned behavior [14]. However, these classical theoretical models can only analyze users' information-sharing behaviors from the perspective of psychological or social relations.…”

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Users’ Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China (Preprint)

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Lin²,

Tang³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND Social Q&A communities are playing an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health information. The identification of influencing factors of user willingness to share health information (WSHI) is very important to improve public health literacy. OBJECTIVE in order to provide a reference for the construction of high-quality health information sharing community, this paper studied the influencing factors of social question-and-answer community users sharing health information. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted through snowball sampling among 921 users of Zhihu in China. Structural equation analysis was used to verify the interaction and influence strength between variables in the model. Hierarchical regression was also used to test the mediating effect in the model. RESULTS Altruism (AL, β=0.264, P＜0.001), Intrinsic Reward (IR, β=0.260, P＜0.05), Self-Efficacy (SE, β=0.468, P＜0.001) and Community Influence (CI, β=0.277, P＜0.01) had a positive effect while Extrinsic Reward (ER, β=0.351, P＜0.001) had a negative effect on WSHI. SE also had a mediating effect (βmediation=0.147, 29.15%, 0.147/0.505) between CI and WSHI. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that WSHI is simultaneously influenced by many factors such as AL, SE, CI and IR. Improving the social atmosphere of the platform is an effective method to encourage users to share health information.

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A multilevel model linking altruistic motivation to workplace safety: The role of servant leadership

He,

Sheng,

Griffin

et al. 2023

J Organ Behavior

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SummaryPrevious research on the motivational factors of safety performance has predominantly focused on one's willingness to directly enact safety behaviors or safety‐specific motivation. The current study extends beyond this view and examines an additional motivational force, altruistic motivation, as a main predictor of employees' safety performance at both individual and team levels. Further, we provide that servant leadership serves as a critical precursor of employee altruistic motivation. A sample of 416 nurses in 42 workgroups and their respective supervisors from a hospital in China completed a two‐wave survey. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that altruistic motivation was positively related to safety performance at both individual and team levels, with a stronger effect at the team level, supporting a proportional theory of homology. Multilevel mediation results showed that servant leadership was positively related to altruistic motivation, which in turn positively led to safety performance at both individual and team levels. These findings highlight both the theoretical and practical importance of encouraging altruistic motivation to improve workplace safety.

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The Enjoyment of Knowledge Sharing: Impact of Altruism on Tacit Knowledge-Sharing Behavior

Cited by 81 publications

References 121 publications

The explanatory power of social cognitive theory in determining knowledge sharing among Saudi faculty

The explanatory power of social cognitive theory in determining knowledge sharing among Saudi faculty

Users’ Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China (Preprint)

A multilevel model linking altruistic motivation to workplace safety: The role of servant leadership

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