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A Study on Relationship between Organizational Identity and Knowledge Sharing

Abstract
The advent of knowledge economy era signifies the importance of knowledge, and knowledge management is drawing great attention. The success of knowledge management depends on the willingness of employees to share knowledge. This research studies whether organization support and social support will affect employee's commitment to organization, and whether more commitment will make employees more willing to share knowledge for the benefit of the organization. Furthermore, this research will verify the mediating effect of organizational commitment on the interaction among organization support, social support and knowledge sharing willingness.
This research uses questionnaires for experiment and verification, total 550 questionnaires are sent to traditional manufacturer and communication service companies located in Southern Taiwan, which are randomly selected from the top 1000 manufacturers and the top 500 companies according Business Week 2006, and 486 questionnaires returned. The effective questionnaires return rate is 88.4%.
The results of this research is following:
(1) The profession support and mission support had positively effect to the organization commitment, and the first had more effect than the second.
(2) In the society support, the emotional support and the tool support had positively effect to the organization commitment, and the first had more effect than the second. Also the supervisor's support had more effect than the family and friend's support.
(3) In the organization commitment, emotion had positively effect to the knowledge sharing willingness, but the persistent promise did not.
(4)The supervisor and senior employee had more organization commitment and knowledge sharing willingness than other employees.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0627107-151829
Date27 June 2007
CreatorsWu, Li-Hua
ContributorsTsuang Kuo, Hsien-tang Tsai, Iuan-yuan Lu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0627107-151829
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