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

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          Knowledge sharing between individuals is a key process for knowledge-intensive organizations to create value and gain a competitive edge. An individual is in the center of a complex set of factors, which are conducive to the knowledge-sharing process. The purpose of this empirical study is to explain the interaction mechanisms between personality and knowledge-sharing behavior and to examine the mediating effects of willingness to share knowledge and subjective norm. The theory of planned behavior, the social exchange theory, and the big five personality traits theory are combined to explain tacit knowledge-sharing behavior. A survey strategy and purposive sampling was applied, and the analysis was conducted on a sample of 288 employees from Croatia working on knowledge-intensive tasks for which high levels of tacit knowledge sharing are characteristic. A standard online questionnaire consisted of items evaluated on a 7-point Likert-scale, ranging from strongly agree (7) to strongly disagree (1). In the structural model, relationships between altruism, willingness, subjective norm, and tacit knowledge sharing were tested. Confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood estimation was performed by using SEM software AMOS version 23. The findings of the study suggest that altruism has a direct impact on tacit knowledge sharing, reaffirming a relationship with knowledge sharing but distinguishing between sharing of different types of knowledge, assessing tacit knowledge sharing as a construct separate from general knowledge sharing. Our findings suggest that willingness to share is a predictive factor of knowledge sharing behavior between employees, having both direct impact on tacit knowledge sharing and being a mediator between the trait of altruism and tacit knowledge sharing. The mediation test also indicates that altruism has an indirect influence on tacit knowledge sharing when subjective norm was a mediator. The findings suggest that personality traits relying on social capital, such as altruism, have more influence on tacit knowledge sharing compared to personality traits that have accentuated intrinsic components. The study contributes to the better understanding of factors stimulating knowledge-sharing behaviors and provides recommendations based on empirical evidence, which may later be applied in the development of knowledge-sharing leadership styles, employee hiring, and auxiliary initiatives.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                16 July 2020
                2020
                : 11
                : 1496
                Affiliations
                [1] 1School of Management, Jiangsu University , Zhenjiang, China
                [2] 2School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China
                [3] 3Research and Development Department, Inovatus Usluge Ltd. , Zagreb, Croatia
                [4] 4Lahore Business School, The University of Lahore , Lahore, Pakistan
                Author notes

                Edited by: Nikolaos Stylos, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Imran Ali, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; Johannes Rodrigues, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany

                *Correspondence: Bojan Obrenovic, bojan@ 123456inovatus-usluge.hr

                This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01496
                7378797
                32765348
                ba1512a4-bdc8-4e95-a970-7a036604c4cc
                Copyright © 2020 Obrenovic, Jianguo, Tsoy, Obrenovic, Khan and Anwar.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 09 December 2019
                : 04 June 2020
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                Figures: 3, Tables: 7, Equations: 0, References: 136, Pages: 16, Words: 0
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                altruistic behaviors,impact of altruism on knowledge sharing,personality traits and knowledge sharing,tacit knowledge sharing,empirical study of behavior,willingness to share

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