Encouraging knowledge sharing among employees: How job design matters

By N. J. Foss, Dana B. Minbaeva, Torben Pedersen, Mia Reinholt. 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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Basic psychological needs and work motivation: A longitudinal test of directionality (2018, background): “2004), knowledge sharing (Foss et al. 2009), and organizational citizenship behavior (Güntert 2015).”
Individual connectedness in innovation networks: On the role of individual motivation (2013, background): “Still, this line of enquiry is not pursued much (Foss et al., 2009).”
Understanding the Climate-knowledge Sharing Relation: The Moderating Roles of intrinsic Motivation and Job Autonomy (2016, methodology): “Similarly, job characteristics (Foss et al., 2009) and climate features (Argote, Beckman, & Epple, 1990) have previously been captured through self-reporting.”
Motivating Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Management Systems (2014, background): “…or learning opportunities for knowledge sharing were negatively related to attitudes toward knowledge sharing (Bock & Kim, 2002; Bock, Zmud, Kim, & Lee, 2005), and external motivation was also negatively related to self-reported knowledge sharing (Foss, Minbaeva, Pedersen, & Reinholt, 2009).”
The more the better…or is it? The contradictory effects of HR practices on knowledge sharing motivation and behavior (2016, methodology): “Several empirical studies have made progress in addressing this gap (Foss et al., 2009, 2015; Reinholt et al., 2011; Minbaeva et al., 2012).”
Human Resource Management Practices and Innovation (2012, background): “Jobs contain characteristics, such as feedback, the size of the task portfolio, the characteristics of individual task, the ability to carry out a job from the beginning to the end, repetitiveness, and so on, that stimulate different kinds of motivation (Foss et al., 2009).”
Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort (2016, background): “…and turnover intention are obviously important, autonomous motivation is a potent predictor of task performance (Cerasoli et al. 2014; Gagné and Deci 2005; Kuvaas 2006, 2009; Piccolo and Colquitt 2006), OCB (Chiu and Chen 2005; Piccolo and Colquitt 2006), and knowledge sharing (Foss et al. 2009).”