An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour

Knowledge plays a significant role on contemporary management and economics. How to promote individuals to share and interact knowledge with others in organisations decide what level of knowledge could affect. This research draw from antecedents of knowledge sharing behaviour, expand what will affec...

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Main Author: Yang, Jingchen
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61814/
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description Knowledge plays a significant role on contemporary management and economics. How to promote individuals to share and interact knowledge with others in organisations decide what level of knowledge could affect. This research draw from antecedents of knowledge sharing behaviour, expand what will affect knowledge sharing behaviour by using a moderated mediation model. In order to test the moderated mediation model, 301 available data were used by analysing with SPSS, Mplus and R. Results demonstrate that workplace friendship is positively associated with knowledge sharing behaviour through a mediation named psychological capital (PsyCap). Specifically, a good relationship in workplace could promote psychological capital and could increase knowledge sharing behaviour. Furthermore, trust climate positively moderate the relationship between workplace friendship and then impact on promoting knowledge sharing behaviour. In other words, high trust climate could develop workplace friendship and PsyCap more easily due to colleagues trust with each other are more willing to share knowledge. This research highlights the function of PsyCap which did not received enough attentions in prior research. Theoretical and practice discussion are included at the end of this dissertation.
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spelling nottingham-618142021-06-08T10:00:47Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61814/ An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour Yang, Jingchen Knowledge plays a significant role on contemporary management and economics. How to promote individuals to share and interact knowledge with others in organisations decide what level of knowledge could affect. This research draw from antecedents of knowledge sharing behaviour, expand what will affect knowledge sharing behaviour by using a moderated mediation model. In order to test the moderated mediation model, 301 available data were used by analysing with SPSS, Mplus and R. Results demonstrate that workplace friendship is positively associated with knowledge sharing behaviour through a mediation named psychological capital (PsyCap). Specifically, a good relationship in workplace could promote psychological capital and could increase knowledge sharing behaviour. Furthermore, trust climate positively moderate the relationship between workplace friendship and then impact on promoting knowledge sharing behaviour. In other words, high trust climate could develop workplace friendship and PsyCap more easily due to colleagues trust with each other are more willing to share knowledge. This research highlights the function of PsyCap which did not received enough attentions in prior research. Theoretical and practice discussion are included at the end of this dissertation. 2020-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61814/1/20148210%20-%20BUSI4173%20-%20Dissertation.docx Yang, Jingchen (2020) An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title_full An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title_fullStr An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title_full_unstemmed An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title_short An Investigation of the Effects of Workplace Friendship, Trust Climate and Psychological Capital on Individual Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
title_sort investigation of the effects of workplace friendship, trust climate and psychological capital on individual knowledge sharing behaviour
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/61814/